So gay a popelot[[62]] or swiche[[63]] a wenche.
Ful brighter was the shining of hire hewe
Than in the tour, the noble yforged newe.
But of hire song, it was as loud and yerne[[64]]
As any swalow sitting on a berne.
Thereto she coudë skip and make a game
As any kid or calf folowing his dame.
Hire mouth was swete as braket[[65]] or the meth,[[66]]
Or horde of apples laid in hay or heth.
Winsing[[67]] she was, as is a jolly colt,