Fro suche tunges he me schilde.

And natheles this world is wilde

Of such jangling, and what befalle,[74]

My kinges heste schal nought falle,70*

That I, in hope to deserve

His thonk, ne schal his wil observe;

And elles were I nought excused,

For that thing may nought be refused

Which that a king himselve bit.[75]

Forthi the symplesce of my wit[76]