For no swich cause, by my heed!

Suffyceth me, as I were deed,

That no wight have my name in honde.

I woot my-self best how I stonde;

For what I drye or what I thinke,

(790) 1880

[I wol my-selven al hit drinke],

Certeyn, for the more part,

As ferforth as I can myn art.'

'But what dost thou here than?' quod he.