To be your trwe seruaunt.
1 ryng (?). 2 þat þat, in MS.
XXIX.
"Do you refuse it," says the lady, because it is simple?
"Now forsake ȝe þis silke." sayde þe burde þenne,
"For hit is symple in hit-self. & so hit wel semeȝ?
Lo! so hit is littel, & lasse hit is worþy;
Bot who-so knew þe costes þat knit ar þer-inne,
He wolde hit prayse at more prys, parauenture;
For quat gome so is gorde with þis grene lace,