And ayen, me thought, she song ever by mine ere.

Wherefore I waited about busily

On every side, if I her might see;

And, at the last, I gan full well aspy

Where she sat in a freshe grene laurer tree,

On the further side even right by me,

That gave so passing a delicious smell,

According to the eglentere full well.

Whereof I had so inly great pleasure,

That, as me thought, I surely ravished was