Preſwme It not, fore It wil not be so;
Al magre thine a ſeruand ſchal yow bee.
As touching thine adversity, seek the remedy.”
[116] And as tueching thine aduerſytee,
Complen and sek of the ramed, the cwre,
Ore, gif yhow likith, furth thi wo endure.”
And, as me thocht, I anſuerde aȝaiñe
Then answered I:
[120] Thus to the byrde, in wordis ſchort and plane:
“It ganyth not, as I have harde Recorde,