Concupiscencia carnis · colled me aboute the nekke,
And seyde, "Thou art yonge and yepe · and hast yeres yn
Forto lyve longe · and ladyes to lovye.
And in this myroure thow myghte se · myrthes ful manye
That leden the wil to lykynge · al thi lyf-tyme."
The secounde seide the same · "I shal suwe thi wille;
Til thow be a lorde and have londe." (B. xi. 16.)
[635] C. vi. 42.
[636] C. vi. 45.
[637] On which see W. S. Simpson, "St. Paul's Cathedral and old City life," London, 1894, 8vo, p. 95: "The chantry priests of St. Paul's." A list of those chantries in a handwriting of the fourteenth century has been preserved; there are seventy-three of them. Ibid., p. 99.
[638] C. beginning of passus vi.; B. beginning of passus xv.: "My witte wex and wanyed til I a fole were."
[639] B. x. 181.
[640] B. x. 420.
... None sonner saved · ne sadder of bileve,
Than plowmen and pastoures · and pore comune laboreres.
Souteres and shepherdes · suche lewed jottes
Percen with a pater-noster · the paleys of hevene,
And passen purgatorie penaunceles · at her hennes-partynge,
In-to the blisse of paradys · for her pure byleve,
That inparfitly here · knewe and eke lyved. (B. x. 458.)