AND AS FOR ME

... And as for me, thogh that I can but lyte,[3]

On bokės for to rede I me delyte,

And to hem yeve[4] I feyth and ful credènce,

And in myn herte have hem in reverence

So hertėley, that there is gamė noon

That fro my bokės maketh me to goon,

But hit be seldom on the holyday,

Save, certeynly, whan that the month of May

Is comen, and that I here the foulės[5] singe