Myche sorow haue be for his dede!
what vaylith it me thowgh I say nay?
¶ I wold my master were a watt[4]
& my boke a wyld Catt,
& a brase of grehowndis in his toppe:
I wold be glade for to se that!
what vayleth it me thowgh I say nay?
¶ I wold my master were an hare,
& all his bokis howndis were,
& I my self a Ioly hontere: