To never no man, [for whom] that he so ferde.
740
For it is seyd, 'man maketh ofte a yerde
With which the maker is him-self [y-beten]
In sondry maner,' as thise wyse treten,
107. And namely, in his counseyl tellinge
That toucheth love that oughte be secree;
745
For of him-self it wolde y-nough [out-springe],
But-if that it the bet governed be.