Is sore venged, as I rede.
[Love-Brokerage. Tale of Echo.]
Brocours of love that deceiven,
No wonder is thogh thei receiven[269]
After the wrong that thei decerven;
For whom as evere that thei serven[270]
And do plesance for a whyle,
Yit ate laste here oghne guile
Hic ponit exemplum contra istos maritos qui vltra id quod proprias habent vxores ad noue voluptatis incrementum alias mulieres superflue lucrari non verentur. Et narrat qualiter Iuno vindictam suam in Eccho decreuit, pro eo quod ipsa Eccho[272] in huiusmodi mulierum lucris adquirendis de consilio mariti sui Iouis mediatrix extiterat.
Upon here oghne hed descendeth,[271]