Sche sih no Schip, sche sih no barge

Als ferforth as sche mihte kenne:

‘Ha lord,’ sche seide, ‘which a Senne,

As al the world schal after hiere,

Upon this woful womman hiere

This worthi kniht hath don and wroght!

I wende I hadde his love boght,

P. ii. 310

And so deserved ate nede,[374]

Whan that he stod upon his drede, 5450