To ben of good condicioun,

Which hath in his subjeccioun

The men that ben of his semblance.’

And ek he tok a remembrance

How he that made lawe of kinde

Wolde every man to lawe binde,

And bad a man, such as he wolde

Toward himself, riht such he scholde

Toward an other don also.

And thus this worthi lord as tho 3280