loo she that may be quod y

Good sir telle me / al hooly

In what wyse / how/why / and wherfore
That ye have thus/youre blysse lore

748

And throgh plesaunce / become his thralle
With good wille / body hert and alle

768

That I knewe thoo / but thus hit stoode
¶ Hit happed that I came / on a day
In-to a place / ther that I say
Trewly the fayrest / companye
Off Ladyes / that euere mañ with ye

Had seen to-gedres in oo place
Shal I clepe hyt / happe other grace
That broght me there / nay but Fortune
That ys to lyen / ful comvne

The fals trayteresse / peruers

God wolde I koude / clepe hir wers
For now she worcheth / me ful woo
And I wol tel sone / why soo

804

[leaf 140, back]

812

[nota in margin]

816

No maner counseyl / but at hir loke

But at myn hest / for why hir eyeñ
So gladly I trow / myn hert seyeñ
That purely tho / myñ ovne thoght'
Seyde hit were beter / serve hir for noght
Than with a-nother / to be wel
And hyt was sothe/ for eueredel
I wil a-noon / ryght' telle the why
I sawgħ hyr daunce / so comelely
Carole and synge / so swetly

840

844

[leaf 141]

848

Lawghe and pley / so womanly

And loke / so debonairly

Hyr lokynge was not / foly sprad
Ne wildely/thogħ that she pleyde
But euer me thoght / hir eyen seyde
Be god my wrathe/ ys al for-yive
Therwith hir lyste / so wel to lyve
That dulnesse was / of hir a-drad
She nas to sobre / ne to glad
In alle thynges / more mesure
Had neuer I trow / creature

But many oon / with hire loke she hert
And that sate hyr / ful lytel at hert
For she knowe no-thynge / of her thoght
1 but whither she knew / or knew it nowght
Algate she ne rought / of hem a stree
To gete hyr love / noo nerre was he

876

880

[leaf 141, back]

884

[This line is in Stowe's hand. Bodl. 638 has a blank too.]

888

That woned at home / that he in ynde
The formest was alway behynde
But good folke ouer al other

She loved as mañ / may do hys brother

Of whiche loue / she was wounder large
In skilful placis / that bere charge
But which a visage / had she ther-too
Allas myn hert / ys wonder woo

892

896

Was white1 rody fressh / and lyvely hewed blanche in margin,

in Stowe's hand]