‘Mi worthi love and lord also,

It is and hath ben evere so,

That wher a womman is al one,

It makth a man in his persone 160

P. ii. 7

The more hardi forto wowe,

In hope that sche wolde bowe

To such thing as his wille were,

Whil that hire lord were elleswhere.

And of miself I telle this;