It mai noght helpe forto rape.
Therfore attempre thi corage;
Folhaste doth non avantage, 1680
Bot ofte it set a man behinde
In cause of love, and that I finde
P. i. 336
Be olde ensample, as thou schalt hiere,
Touchende of love in this matiere.
[Tale of Phebus and Daphne.]
A Maiden whilom ther was on,