His painted girdle met with mickle shame;

He aynewarde told his bederoll at the same; told his beads

The storm increases, and he drew aside, backwards,

With the poor alms-craver near to the holm to bide. i.e., cursed

His cope was all of Lincoln cloth so fine,

With a gold button fastened near his chin,

His autremete was edged with golden twine, robe

And his shoe’s peak a noble’s might have been;

Full well it shewèd he thought cost no sin.

The trammels of his palfrey pleased his sight,