But nowe I se well the olde proverbe is treu:

The parysshe preest forgetteth that ever he was clarke! 595

But, Syr Jhan, doth not remembre you

How I was your clerke, & holpe you masse to syng,

And hylde the basyn alway at the offryng? B iv

He never had halfe so good a clarke as I!

But, notwithstandyng all this, nowe our pye 600

Is eaten up, there is not lefte a byt,

And you two together there do syt,

Eatynge and drynkynge at your owne desyre,