Man. I will help it in all that I may
And I wist by what mean.
Sens. Marry! call them to your company!
Man. By Saint John! I am content.
For, I may say here to thee,
Since I forsook my liberty
And did to Reason assent
I had never merry day;
But lived under awe and dread alway,
Nothing to mine intent.
Another while I will me disport
And to mine old company resort.
Sens. O then shall ye them comfort,
And your self also.
Wot ye who will be very glad?
Man. Who?
Sens. Margery!
Man. Why, was she sad?
Sens. Yea, by the mass! she was stark mad,
Even for very woe
When she heard tell of this chance;
And, because she would live in penance
Her sorrow for to quench,
She hath entered into a religious place,
At the Green Friars hereby.
Man. Yea, has'e?
Alack, good little wench!
Is it an house of strait religion?
Sens. Yea, as any that ever was bygone
Sith the world stood.