Trewe humble hertës with hir mistihede,

Nere comfort a-dayes, whan eyën clere

35

Disclose and sprede my lyves lady dere.

[A stanza lost; lines 36-42.]

Je vouldray:—but [the] gret[e] god disposeth

And maketh casuel by his providence

45

Such thing as mannës frelë wit purposeth;

Al for the best, if that our conscience