FOOTNOTES:
[1301] Gaunt = Ghent.
[1302] ancyent = ensign.
[166. The Lady turned Serving-Man]
I
You beauteous ladies great and small,
I write unto you, one and all,
Whereby that you may understand
What I have suffer’d in this land.
II
I was by birth a lady fair,
My father’s chief and only heir;
But when my good old father died,
Then I was made a young knight’s bride.