‘Mi lord, mi fader, wel you be!

And of this time that I se

Youre honour and your goode hele,

Which is the helpe of my querele,

I thonke unto the goddes myht.’

For joie his herte was affliht

Of that sche tolde in remembrance;

And whanne he wiste it was Constance, 1520

Was nevere fader half so blithe.

Wepende he keste hire ofte sithe,