Alas! For our wages, what be we the nere?
What is forty shyllynges, or fyve marke, a yere? B iii b
Many tymes and oft, where we be flyttynge,
We spende forty pens a pece at a syttinge. 420
Now for our vauntage, whyche chefely is wyndefale.
That is ryght nought, there bloweth no wynde at all,
Whyche is the thynge wherin we fynde most grefe,
And cause for my commynge to sew for relefe,
That the god, of pyty, al thys thynge knowynge, 425
May sende us good rage of blustryng and blowynge,