lykende in herte at thyne owne wil. But now to enforme thee in
this mater (quod this lady) thou wost where I lefte; that was:
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love to be swete, and love swete to be swete, is not al oon for to
say. For a tree is nat alway by necessitè white. Somtyme, er it
were white, it might have be nat white; and after tyme it is
white, it may be nat white. But a white tree evermore nedeful
is to be white; for neither toforn ne after it was white, might it
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be togider white and nat white. Also love, by necessitè, is nat