| | That saint Petir hadde whan that he went | |
| | Vp on the se til Iesus crist hym hent | |
| | He hadde a cros of laton ful of stones | |
| 700 | And in a glas he hadde piggis bones | |
| | But with thise reliques whan that he fond | |
| | A poure person dwellynge vp on lond | |
| | Vp on a day he gat hym more mone | |
| | Than the person gat in monethis thre | |
| 705 | And thus hath he feyned flateriez & Iapis | |
| | He made the parson and the pepill his apis | |
| | But trewli to telle at the last | |
| | He was in chirche an noble ecclesiast | |
| | Well coude he rede a lesson or a story | |
| 710 | But alderbest he song an offretory | |
| | For wel he wiste whan that song was sunge | |
| | He moste preche and file a while his tunge | |
| | To wynne siluer as he wel can | |
| | Therfore he song the merier than | |
| | N | Ow haue I tolde you shortly in a clause | |
| | The state the aray the nombre & the cause | |
| | Why that assembled was this companye | |
| | In Sowthwerk at this gentil hostelrye | |
| | That highte the Taberd faste by the belle | |
| 720 | But now is tyme to you forto telle | |
| | How that we bare vs that ilke nyght | |
| | Whan that we were in the hostry a light | |
| | And aftir wil I telle of our viage | |
| | And al the remenaunt of our pilgremage | |
| 725 | But first I you pray of your curtasye | |
