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,