Which cleped is the nyhtes feste,

Withoute Slep of sluggardie;[1403]

Which Venus out of compaignie 3260

Hath put awey, as thilke same,

Which lustles ferr from alle game

In chambre doth fulofte wo[1404]

Abedde, whanne it falleth so

That love scholde ben awaited.

But Slowthe, which is evele affaited,

With Slep hath mad his retenue,