Of Paradis the moste joie:

And so therwhile I me rejoie,

Into myn herte a gret desir,[721]

The which is hotere than the fyr, 210

Al soudeinliche upon me renneth,

That al mi thoght withinne brenneth,

And am so ferforth overcome,

That I not where I am become;

So that among the hetes stronge[722]

In stede of drinke I underfonge