| | Is verry god this is our sentence | |
| | That hath a seruaunt so good hym to serue | |
| 420 | This with o voys we trowen though we sterue | |
| | Almachins that herde of this doynge | |
| | Bad fecche Cecily that he mighte her se | |
| | And alderfirst this was his axinge | |
| | What maner woman art thou quod he | |
| 425 | I am a gentilwoman born quod she | |
| | I axe the quod he though it the greue | |
| | Of thy religion and of thy beleue | |
| | Why than began ye your question folily | |
| | Quod she that wolde two answers conclude | |
| 430 | In o demaunde ye axid lewdly | |
| | Almache answerde to that similitude | |
| | Of whens comyth thyn answer so rude | |
| | Of whens quod she whan that she was freyned | |
| | Of conscience and of good feith vnfeyned | |
| 435 | Almachins sayde ne takist thou no hede | |
| | Of my power and she answerd hym this | |
| | Your myght quod she is ful litil to drede | |
| | For euery mortal mannys power nys | |
| | But lik a bladder ful of wynd ywis | |
| 440 | For with anedelis poynt when it is blowe | |
| | May al the boste of it be leid ful lowe | |
| | Ful wrongfully began thou quod he | |
| | And in wrong is yet al thy perseueraunce | |
| | Wost thou nat how our Princis mighty & fre | |
| 445 | Haue thus comaundid and made ordenaunce | |
| | That euery cristyn wight shal haue penaunce | |
