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,