Yit mai a man the sothe se:

P. i. 277

God mai amende it, whan he wile,

I can ther to non other skile.

Confessor.

Bot forto go ther I began,

How charite mai helpe a man

To bothe worldes, I have seid:

And if thou have an Ere leid, 3500

Mi Sone, thou miht understonde,