Of which I wont was counsaile haue and reed:

O Master dere, and Fadre reuerent:

My Master Chaucer Floure of Eloquence,

Mirror of fructuous entendement:

O vniuersal fadre of Science:

Alas that thou thine excellent Prudence

In thy Bed mortal mightest not bequeath.

What eyl'd Death, alas why would she the fle?

O Death, thou didst not harm singler in slaughter of him,

But all the Land it smerteth;