Ac no man may telle hir fairnise.

Bifel so in þe comessing of May,

When miri and hot is þe day,

And oway beþ winter-schours,

And eueri feld is ful of flours, 60

And blosme breme on eueri bouȝ

Oueral wexeþ miri anouȝ,

Þis ich quen, Dame Heurodis,

Tok to maidens of priis,

And went in an vndrentide65