With yifte a man mai undertake 4790
The hihe god to plese and queme,
With yifte a man the world mai deme;[293]
P. ii. 288
For every creature bore,
If thou him yive, is glad therfore,
And every gladschipe, as I finde,
Is confort unto loves kinde
And causeth ofte a man to spede.
So was he wys that ferst yaf mede,