Men say ‘þe trespas þou hase wroȝght.’
¶ By-fore þy lorde, ne mawes þou make
Ȝif þou wylle curtasie with þe take.
With hondes vnwasshen take neuer þy mete;
Fro alle þes vices loke þou þe kepe.
¶ Loke þou sytt—and make no stryf—
Where þo est commaundys, or ellis þo wyf.
Eschewe þe heȝest place with wyn,[13]
But þou be beden to sitt þer-in.
Of curtasie here endis þe secunde fyt,