As who saith, ‘I am so celee,

Ther mai no mannes privete

Be heled half so wel as myn.’

Art thou, mi Sone, of such engin?

Tell on.

Amans.

Mi goode fader, nay

As for the more part I say;

Bot of somdiel I am beknowe,

That I mai stonde in thilke rowe[702] 1960