They were couched, al after oon worching,
With dyamonds in stede of powdering;
The sleves and purfilles of assyse;
They were y-mad [ful] lyke, in every wyse.'
I wonder which the reader prefers; for myself, I have really no choice.
For I do not see how to choose between such lines as these following:—
And on I put my gere and myn array; F. 26.
That ye wold help me on with myn aray; A. 241.
or, So than I dressed me in myn aray; A. 253.