| | But natheles withoute your witynge | |
| | I wil not do but thus I wol quod he | |
| | That ye to me assente as to this thing | |
| 495 | Shew now your pacience in your werkynge | |
| | That ye me highte and swoor in your village | |
| | That day that made was our mariage | |
| | Whan she hadde herd al this she not ameuyd | |
| | Neither in word neyther in chere ne in continance | |
| 500 | For as it semyd she was not agreuyd | |
| | She saith lord al lieth in your plesaunce | |
| | My child and I with hertly obeyssaunce | |
| | Been your owen and ye may bothe saue & spille | |
| | Your owen thing do ye aftir your wille | |
| 505 | Ther may be no thing so god my soule saue | |
| | Likyng to you that may displese me | |
| | Ne I desire no thing in ony wyse to haue | |
| | Ne drede forto lese saue only ye | |
| | This wyl is in myn herte and euer shal be | |
| 510 | No lengthe of tyme or deth may this deface | |
| | Ne turne my corage to noon othir place | |
| | Glad was this Markis of her answeringe | |
| | But yet it semyd as he were not so | |
| | Al drery was his chere and his lokyng | |
| 515 | Whan that he sholde out of the chambir go | |
| | Sone aftir this a furlong wey or two | |
| | He priuely hath told al his entent | |
| | Vnto a man and to his wyf hym sent | |
| | A maner of a sergeaunt was this priuy man | |
| 520 | The whiche that feithful oftyn founde had | |
