"his desire is ffickle, ffond,
and a trustles ioye;
he is won with a world of dispayre,
and lost with a toye. 36
such is the [fate of all man] kind,
or the word loue abused,
under which many childish desires
and conceipts are excused." 40
"But loue is a durabler ffyer
in the mind euer Burninge,
euer sicke, neuer dead, neuer cold,
ffrom itt selfe neuer turninge." 44
ffinis.]
FOOTNOTES:
[464] Even in the time of Langland, pilgrimages to Walsingham were not unfavourable to the rites of Venus. Thus in his Visions of Pierce Plowman, fo. 1.
"Hermets on a heape, with hoked staves,
Wenten to Walsingham, and her[465] wenches after."
[465] i.e. their.
[466] sc. pale.
[467] sc. angels.