For schame, which mai noght be lassed,

Of thing that was tofore passed,

Whan that sche loste hir maidenhiede:

For evere upon hir wommanhiede,

P. ii. 327

Thogh that the goddes wolde hire change,

Sche thenkth, and is the more strange,[439]

And halt hir clos the wyntres day.

Bot whan the wynter goth away, 5960

And that Nature the goddesse