Set generosus amor linguam conseruat, vt eius
Verbum quod loquitur nulla sinistra gerat.
Touchende as of Envious brod
I wot noght on of alle good;
Bot natheles, suche as thei be,
Hic tractat Confessor de tercia specie Inuidie, que Detraccio dicitur, cuius morsus vipereos lesa quamsepe fama deplangit.
Yit is ther on, and that is he
Which cleped is Detraccioun.
And to conferme his accioun,
He hath withholde Malebouche,