And what sche was. Quod sche, ‘I am
A womman wofully bestad.
I hadde a lord, and thus he bad, 1150
That I forth with my litel Sone[624]
Upon the wawes scholden wone,
Bot why the cause was, I not:
Bot he which alle thinges wot
Yit hath, I thonke him, of his miht
Mi child and me so kept upriht,
That we be save bothe tuo.’