All Idle iche hate, [629] for All Active is my name;

A wafirer [630] well ye wyt; and serve many lordes,

And few robes I get, or faire furred gownes.

Could I lye, to do [631] men laugh; then lachen [632] I should

Nother mantill, nor money, amonges lords minstrels:

And, for [633] I can neither taber, ne trumpe, ne tell no gestes,

Fartin ne fislen, at feastes, ne harpen;

Jape, ne juggle, ne gentilly pype,

Ne neither saylen ne saute, [634] ne singe to the gytterne,

I have no good giftes to please the great lordes.