A thing create, that all things passes,

Whom nature blest with all hir graces;

O clerkes, in you blisse all blisse places."

This hard speech Phillis hardly takes,

And thus she Floras pacience crakes;

"Thou lov'st a man pure love forsakes,

That God his godles bellie makes.

"Rise, wretch, from this grosse extasie,

A clerke sole epicure thinke I.

No elegance can bewtifie