P. i. 108

Such will my wit hath overset,

That what so hope me behet,

Ful many a time I wene it soth,

Bot finali no spied it doth.

Thus may I tellen, as I can,

Wenyng beguileth many a man;[407]

So hath it me, riht wel I wot:

For if a man wole in a Bot[408] 1960

Which is withoute botme rowe,