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