| | But soth is said goon seth is many a day | |
| | A trewe wight and a theef thinke not on | |
| 530 | And whan he saw the thing so fer agon | |
| | That I grauntid hym my loue | |
| | In suche a gyse as y haue sayd aboue | |
| | And yeue hym my trewe herte as fre | |
| | As he swoor he yaf his herte to me | |
| 535 | Anon this tigre ful of doubilnesse | |
| | Fil on his knees with so gret humblenesse | |
| | With high reuerence and as by his chere | |
| | So lik a gentil louer in manere | |
| | So rauysshed as it semed for ioye | |
| 540 | That neuer Troylus ne Paris of Troye | |
| | Iason certis ne non other man | |
| | Syn lameth was that alderfirst began | |
| | To louen two as writen folk beforn | |
| | Ne neuer sith that first man was born | |
| | To ony womman were she neuer so wyse | |
| | So payntid he his chere at poynt deuyce | |
| | As wel his wordis as his contenaunce | |
| | And so I loued hym for his obeisaunce | |
| 555 | And for the trowthe I demed in his hert | |
| | That yf so were that ony thing hym smert | |
| | Al were it neuer so lite and I it wiste | |
| | Me thoughte I herde deth at my herte twiste | |
| | And shortly so ferforth this thing is went | |
| 560 | That my wil was his willis instrument | |
| | This is to sey my wil obeyed to his wil | |
| | In alle thing aftir that reson fyl | |
