I wys I coude tell,[327]—but humlery, home;

I dare not speke, we be so layde awayte,

For all our courte is full of dysceyte.

Now, by saynte Fraunceys, that holy man and frere, 470

I hate these[328] wayes agayne you that they take:

Were I as you, I wolde ryde them full nere;

And, by my trouthe, but yf an ende they make,

Yet wyll I saye some wordes for your sake,

That shall them angre, I holde thereon a grote;

For some shall wene be hanged by the throte.