Desyrynge hym to have sent me by some token
Where I myghte have had great frost for my pytfallys, 1015
And plente of snow to make my snow-ballys.
This onys[207] had, boyes lyvis be such as no man leddys.
O, to se my snow ballys lyght on my felowes heddys,
And to here the byrdes how they flycker theyr wynges
In the pytfale! I say yt passeth all thynges. 1020
Syr, yf ye be goddes servaunt, or his kynsman,
I pray you helpe me in this yf ye can.
Mery-reporte. Alas, pore boy, who sent the hether?