That cometh of him, may to me savory thinke;

For ay thurst I, the more that I it drinke.

59. And if that at myn owene lust I brenne,

Fro whennes cometh my wailing and my pleynte?

If harme agree me, wher-to pleyne I thenne?

410

I noot, ne why unwery that I feynte.

O quike deeth, o swete harm so queynte,

How may of thee in me swich quantitee,

But-if that I consente that it be?