There sate dame prudence in vertue magnyfyed

Impossyble it is to shewe her goodelyhed

She was so fayre and clerely puryfyed

And so dyscrete and full of womanhede

That and I trowe vertue were deed

It sholde reuyue yet in her agayne

She was so gentyll and without dysdeyn

It was grete comfort vnto my hert

For to beholde that heuenly syght

Dyscrecyon sayd I sholde not depert