Bot thanne be a thousand score

Welmore than I was tofore

I am tormented in mi slep,

Bot that I dreme is noght of schep;

For I ne thenke noght on wulle,

Bot I am drecched to the fulle

P. ii. 99

Of love, that I have to kepe,

That nou I lawhe and nou I wepe,

And nou I lese and nou I winne,