Or colours of rethoryke?
860
Pardee, hit oghte thee to lyke;
For [hard langage and hard matere]
Is encombrous for to here
At ones; wost thou not wel this?'
And I answerde, and seyde, 'Yis.'
865
'A ha!' quod he, 'lo, so I can,
[Lewedly] to a lewed man