Have al my time in vein despended,
And se noght how to ben amended,
P. i. 318
Bot rathere forto be empeired,
As he that is welnyh despeired:
For I ne mai no thonk deserve,[942]
And evere I love and evere I serve,
And evere I am aliche nerr.
Thus, for I stonde in such a wer,
I am, as who seith, out of herre;