I may fortune for to ryme

Somwhat of your madnesse;

For small is your sadnesse

To put any man in lack,

And say yll behynde his back: 1240

And my wordes marke truly,

That ye can nat[243] byde thereby,

For smegma non est cinnamomum,

But de absentibus nil nisi bonum.

Complayne, or do what ye wyll,