What [ys] softer þan ys þe flex?

12

‘But þou now answery me,

Thu schalt for soþe my leman be.’

13

‘Ihesu, for þy myld myȝth,

As thu art kynge and knyȝt,

14

‘Lene me wisdome to answere here ryȝth,

And schylde me fram the fovle wyȝth!