Sche can the wisdom of a clerk,

Sche can of every lusti werk[1624]

Which to a gentil womman longeth,

And some of hem sche underfongeth

To the Citole and to the Harpe,

And whom it liketh forto carpe

Proverbes and demandes slyhe,

An other such thei nevere syhe, 1490

Which that science so wel tawhte:

Wherof sche grete yiftes cawhte,