Ay stering theim to drede[n] vice and shame:

In their degree it maketh thaim honorable;

605

And swete it is of love [to] bere the name,

So that his love be feithfull, true, and stable:

Love prunith him, to semen amiable;

Love hath no faut, there it is exercysed,

But sole with theim that have all love dispised.

610

Honour to thee, celestiall and clere