The vice, and as the bokes sein,
It makth curteis of the vilein,[1299] 2300
And to the couard hardiesce
It yifth, so that verrai prouesse
P. ii. 79
Is caused upon loves reule
To him that can manhode reule;
And ek toward the wommanhiede,
Who that therof wol taken hiede,
For thei the betre affaited be[1300]