Thus tellen thei whiche olde bookes conne,
Whereof, my lord, y wot wel thow art lerned.
Axe of thi god, so schalt thou noght be werned
Of no reqweste which is resonable;
For god unto the goode is favorable.
Kyng Salomon, which hadde at his axinge
Of god what thing him was levest to crave,[1912] 30
He ches wisdom unto the governynge[1913]
Of goddis folk, the whiche he wolde save:
And as he ches it fel him forto have;