And putte ful the shryne of spycerye,

And leet the cors embaume; and forth she fette

This [dede cors], and in the shryne hit shette.

[And next the shryne a pit than doth she grave];

(100)

And [alle the serpents] that she mighte have,

680

She putte hem in that grave, and thus she seyde:

'[Now love, to whom my sorweful herte obeyde]

So ferforthly that, fro that blisful houre