In the B version, the rimes gold : mold, toures : boures, regularly recur in the third and fourth stanzas, and line 5 of the A text is preserved in slightly modified form in the first line of verse 3:— (MS. Harl. 4486, vv. 3 and 4)
Erthe apon erthe wynnethe castelles and towres.
Then seythe erthe to erthe: ‘These bythe alle owres.’
When erthe apon erthe hath byggede vp his bowres,
Then schalle erthe for the erthe suffre scharpe schowres.
Erthe gothe apon erthe as molde apon molde.
So goethe erthe apon erthe alle gleterynge in golde,
Lyke as erthe unto erthe neuer go scholde,
And ȝet schalle erthe into erthe rather then he wolde.
In the Cambridge text the rime-words towres : bours are introduced twice over, representing both the versions given above:—