Sende me grace both nyȝt and daye!”
Whate euer thow sey, A-vyse the welle!
Explicit &c.
[MS. O. 9. 38. Trinity College, Cambridge.]
Printed in Reliquiæ Antiquæ, v. i. p. 233, from
MS. Lansdowne No. 762, fol. 16 b.
A dog in a larder, a sow in a garden, a fool with wise men, are ill matcht.
hoo so makyȝt at crystysmas A dogge lardyner, And yn march A sowe gardyner, And yn may A foole of every wysmanys counsaylle, he schalle neuer haue goode larder, ne fayre gardyn, nother counsaylle welle y-keptt.
