wivers and venomous serpentes, as envy, mistrust, and yvel
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speche.'
'O fole,' quod she, 'mistrust with foly, with yvel wil medled,
engendreth that welked padde! Truely, if they were distroyed,
jelousy undon were for ever; and yet some maner of jelousy,
I wot wel, is ever redy in al the hertes of my trewe servauntes, as
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thus: to be jelous over him-selfe, lest he be cause of his own
disese. This jelousy in ful thought ever shulde be kept, for