For Joachim thilke Abbot tolde
How suche daies scholden falle,
Quanti Mercenarii erunt in ouile dei, tuas aures meis narracionibus fedare nolo.[803]
That comunliche in places alle
The Chapmen of such mercerie
With fraude and with Supplantarie 3060
So manye scholden beie and selle,
That he ne may for schame telle
So foul a Senne in mannes Ere.
Bot god forbiede that it were