or alyaunce that may ben. Who is it that ne seide tho
that thou were right weleful, with so grete a nobleye of thy fadres-in-lawe,
and with the chastitee of thy wyf, and with the oportunitee
and noblesse of thy masculin children, that is to seyn, thy sones?
And over al this—me list to passen the comune thinges—how
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thou haddest in thy youthe dignitees that weren werned to olde
men. But it delyteth me to comen now to the singuler uphepinge
of thy welefulnesse. Yif any fruit of mortal thinges may han any
weighte or prys of welefulnesse, mightest thou ever foryeten, for