Mai nevere be to loves lawe honeste.
O thou, gentile Venus, loves queene,[1709]
Withoute gult thou dost on me thi wreche;
Thou wost my peine is evere aliche grene
For love, and yit I mai it noght areche:
This wold I for my laste word beseche,[1710]
That thou mi love aquite as I deserve,
Or elles do me pleinly forto sterve. 2300
[Venus replies to the Supplication.]
Whanne I this Supplicacioun