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.