| 680 | To do hym disport he is a gentil man | |
| | And tellith that I wol hym visite | |
| | Haue I no thing but restid me a lite | |
| 685 | Now with this word he gan to hym calle | |
| | A squier that was marchal of his halle | |
| | And tolde hym certeyn thingis what he wolde | |
| | This fresh may hath streyght her wey holde | |
| | With alle her women vnto this damyan | |
| 690 | Doun be his bedside anon sat she than | |
| | Confortyng hym as goodly as she may | |
| | This damyan whan he his tyme say | |
| | In priuy wyse his purs and eke his bille | |
| | In whiche that he writyn hadde al his wylle | |
| 695 | Hath put in to hir honde withouten more | |
| | Saue that he sighed right wonderly sore | |
| | And softly to hir right thus sayde he | |
| | Mercy and that ye discouer not me | |
| | For I am ded yf that this thing be kyd | |
| 700 | This bille hath she in her besom hyd | |
| | And wente hir wey ye gete nomore of me | |
| | Vnto Ianuary comyn thenne is she | |
| | And on his beddis side sat ful softe | |
| | He takith hir and kissith hir ful ofte | |
| 705 | And leyd hym doun to slepe and that anon | |
| | She feyned as that she must goone | |
| | There as ye woot euery wight most nede | |
| | And when she of this byl hath take kepe | |
| | She rente it vnto cloutis and atte laste | |
| 710 | In the priuy softly hath she it caste | |
