| | Come where it nedith not of me to lere | |
| | For thou shalt by thyn owen experience | |
| | Conne in the chayer rede this sentence | |
| | Better than Virgile whyle he was on lyue | |
| 220 | Or dauid also now leet vs ryde belyue | |
| | For I wol holde company with the | |
| | Til it be so that thou forsake me | |
| | Nay quod the sompnour that shal not betide | |
| | I am a yeman that knowen am ful wyde | |
| 225 | My trouthe wol I holde to the as in this caas | |
| | For though were the deuyl Sathanas | |
| | Take thou thy part of that men wol the yeue | |
| | And I shal myne thus may we bothe lyue | |
| | And yf that ony of vs haue more than other | |
| | Let hym be trewe and parte with his brothir | |
| 235 | I graunte quod the deuyl be my fey | |
| | And with that word they riden forth hir wey | |
| | And right at an entre of a townys ende | |
| | To whiche the sompnour shoop hym forto wende | |
| | They sawe a carte that charged was with hey | |
| 240 | Whiche that a carter drof forth in the wey | |
| | Deep was the wey for whiche the Carte stood | |
| | This carter smoot and cryde as he were wood | |
| | What heyt brok heyt scot spare ye for the nonys | |
| | The fend quod he you fecche body and bonys | |
| 245 | As ferforth as euer ye were y folid | |
| | So mykil wo as I haue for you tholid | |
| | The deuyl haue bothe hors Carte and hey | |
| | Quod the sompnour here shal we haue a pley | |
