And flour and gras and rote and rinde,[515]

And every thing be weie of kynde

Schal sterve, and Erthe it schal become;

As it was out of Erthe nome,[516]

It schal to therthe torne ayein:

And thus I mai be resoun sein

That Erthe is the most nedeles,

And most men helpe it natheles.

So that, my lord, touchende of this

I have ansuerd hou that it is. 3270