To axe of me if I be scars

To love, for as to tho pars

I wole ansuere and seie no.

Confessor.

Mi Sone, that is riht wel do.

For often times of scarsnesse

It hath be sen, that for the lesse

Is lost the more, as thou schalt hiere

A tale lich to this matiere. 4780

[Tale of Babio and Croceus.]