I tok awey the Sones berd,[617]

For that his fader hadde non,

To make hem liche, and hier upon

I axe forto ben excused.’

Lo thus, wher Sacrilegge is used,

A man can feigne his conscience;

And riht upon such evidence7210*

In loves cause, &c. (as 7033 ff.)

In loves cause if I schal trete,