Of this superscription do ye blame the style?

C. Custance. With the rest, as good stuff as ye read a great while.

M. Merry. [reads:]

"Sweet Mistress, where as I love you nothing at all,

Regarding your substance and riches chief of all;

For your personage, beauty, demeanour and wit,

I commend me unto you never a whit.

Sorry to bear report of your good welfare,

For, (as I hear say) such your conditions are,

That ye be worthy favour of no living man;