For the gyse now adays
Of sum iangelyng iays[1802]
Is to discommende
That they can not[1803] amende,
Though they wolde spende
All the wittis they haue.
What ayle them to depraue
Phillippe Sparows graue?
His Dirige, her Commendacioun
Can be no derogacyoun, 1270