& þus may ye haue a thank / & reward wheñ þat euer hit falle.

[ A bathe or stewe so called.]

Ȝeff youre souerayne wille to þe bathe, his body to wasche clene,

hang shetis round about þe rooff; do thus as y meene;

euery shete full of flowres & herbis soote & grene,

and looke ye haue sponges .v. or vj. peroñ to sytte or lene:

looke þer be a gret sponge, þer-oñ youre souerayne to sytt;

þeroñ a shete, & so he may bathe hym̅ þere a fytte;

vndir his feete also a sponge, ȝiff þer be any to putt;

and alwey be sure of þe dur, & se þat he be shutt.