Min herte is sory forto hiere,
Bot only for I wolde lere
What is to done, and what to leve.
[1038]Hic queritur quibus de causis licet hominem[1039] occidere.
And over this now be your leve,
That ye me wolden telle I preie,
If ther be lieffull eny weie
Withoute Senne a man to sle.[1040]
Confessor.
Mi Sone, in sondri wise ye. 2210