To Master Sir John Paston, Knight, be this letter delyvered in Calis.
1477
Fresh amorouse sihts of cuntreys ferre and straunge
Have all fordoone[280.2] your old affeccion;
In plesurys new, your hert dooth score and raunge
So hye and ferre, that like as the fawcon
Which is alofte, tellith scorne to loke a down
On hym that wont was her feders to pyke and ympe;[281.1]
Ryht so forgotyn ye have your pore Pympe,
That wrytith, sendith, and wisshith alday your wele