Whan that fortune is therayein.

To take where a man hath leve

Good is, and elles he mot leve;

For whan a mannes happes failen,

Ther is non haste mai availen.

Amans.

Mi fader, grant merci of this:

[Fool-haste.]

Bot while I se mi ladi is 1730

No tre, but halt hire oghne forme,