The forme alwey, and do that it be lyk;
For if a peyntour wolde peynte a [pyk]
With asses feet, and hede it as an ape,
It cordeth nought; so nere it but a Iape.'
150. This counseyl lyked wel to Troilus;
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But, as a dreedful lover, he seyde this:—
'Allas, my dere brother Pandarus,
I am ashamed for to wryte, y-wis,
Lest of myn innocence I seyde a-mis,