Hic tractat super illa Cupiditatis specie, que secretum latrocinium dicitur, cuius natura custode[532] rerum nesciente ea que cupit tam per diem quam per noctem absque strepitu clanculo furatur.
Which Stelthe is hote, and Mecherie
With him is evere in compainie.
Of whom if I schal telle soth,
He stalketh as a Pocok doth,
And takth his preie so covert,
That noman wot it in apert. 6500
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For whan he wot the lord from home,[533]
Than wol he stalke aboute and rome;