He was a lord ful fat and in good point.

His eyen stepe,[73] and rolling in his hed,

That stemed as a forneis of led.[74]

His bootès souple, his hors in gret estat:

Now certainly he was a fayre prelát.

He was not pale as a forpined[75] gost.

A fat swan loved he best of any rost,

His palfrey was as broune as is a bery.

[III.]

A Frere[76] ther was, a wanton and a mery,