Me[284] thoughte, his gowne was all furred wyth foxe;

And euer he sange, Sythe I am no thynge playne.

To kepe him frome pykynge it was a grete payne:

He gased on me with his gotyshe berde;

Whan I loked on hym, my[285] purse was half aferde.

HARUY HAFTER.[286]

Syr, God you saue! why loke ye so sadde?

What thynge is that I maye do for you? 240

A wonder thynge that ye waxe not madde!

For, and I studye sholde as ye doo nowe,