Now is he as pore as I,

Wormys mete is his body,

His sowle in helle ful peynfully

Of develis is al to-torn.

Alle men dwellyng upon the grownde,

Beware of me, be myn councel;

ffor feynt felachep in me is fownde, —

I kan no curtesy, as I ȝow tel;

ffor be a man nevyr so sownde,

Of helthe in herte nevyr so wel,