Toward the Slowe progenie
Ther is yit on of compaignie,
Hic loquitur de Sompnolencia, que Accidie[1344] Cameraria dicta est, cuius natura semimortua alicuius negocii vigilias obseruare soporifero[1345] torpore recusat: vnde quatenus amorem concernit Confessor Amanti diligencius opponit.
And he is cleped Sompnolence,
Which doth to Slouthe his reverence,
As he which is his Chamberlein,
That many an hundrid time hath lein
To slepe, whan he scholde wake.
He hath with love trewes take,
That wake who so wake wile,