Which went in a long gown of raye;

I crowched and kneled before hym anon,

For Maryes love, of help I hym praye.

"I wot not that thou meanest," gan he say:

To get me thence he did me bede,

For lack of mony I cold not speed.

Within this hall, neither rich nor yett poore

Wold do for me ought, although I shold dye.

Which seing, I gat me out of the doore,

Where Flemynges began on me for to cry,