Soo greate pleasyre,[291] or who to you it gaue:

Syr, pardone me, I am an homely knaue,

To be with you thus perte and thus bolde;

But ye be welcome to our housholde.

And, I dare saye, there is no man here inne

But wolde be glad of your company:

I wyste neuer man that so soone coude wynne

The fauoure that ye haue with my lady; 270

I praye to God that it maye neuer dy:

It is your fortune for to haue that grace;