It nedes me not to layne,

That I schulde byde hym vpon thys bent,

And I haue hys trowth agayne.

41

‘And if that I w[e]ynde of thys growende,

For soth, onfowghten awaye,

He wolde me call but a kowarde knyght

In hys londe another daye.

42

‘Yet had I lever to be rynde and rente,