“In certeyñ, sir / y haue y-sought / Ferre & nere many a wilsom way
to gete mete[9] a mastir; & for y cowd nouȝt / euery mañ seid me nay,
y cowd no good, ne nooñ y shewde /where euer y ede day by day
but wantouñ & nyce, recheles & lewde / as Iangelynge as a Iay.”
“Now, son, ȝiff y the teche, wiltow any thynge lere?
wiltow be a seruaunde, plowȝmañ, or a laborere,
Courtyour or a clark / Marchaund / or masoun, or an artificere,
Chamburlayn, or buttillere / pantere or karvere?”
[“The office of buttiler, sir, trewly / pantere or chamburlayne],
The connynge of a kervere, specially / of þat y wold lerne fayne