| | And to hym spak and thus he sayde in game | |
| | Stoupith a doun be god ye be to blame | |
| | Help me now as ye did whyle eer | |
| 610 | Put in your hond and lokith what is there | |
| | This preest took vp this siluer teyn anon | |
| | And than sayde the chanon leet vs goon | |
| | With thyse thre teynes which þt we haue wrought | |
| | To som goldsmyth to loke yf they be aught | |
| 615 | For by my feith I nolde for myn hood | |
| | But yf it were siluer fyne and good | |
| | And that as swithe preuyd it shal be | |
| | Vnto the goldsmyth with thyse teynes thre | |
| | They wente and put hem in assay | |
| 620 | To fire and hamyr might no man say nay | |
| | But that they were as hem ought to be | |
| | This sottid preest who was gladder than he | |
| | Was neuer brid gladder ayenst the day | |
| | Ne nyghtyngale in the seson of may | |
| 625 | Was neuer noon that best list to synge | |
| | Ne lady lustier in carolinge | |
| | Or forto speke of loue or wommanhede | |
| | Ne knyght in armys done a lusty dede | |
| | To stonden in grace of his lady dere | |
| 630 | Than hadde this preest this craft forto lere | |
| | And to the Chanon thus he spak and sayde | |
| | That for the loue of god that for vs alle deyde | |
| | As I may deserue it vnto yow | |
| | What shal this receyt coste tel me now | |
| 635 | Be our lord quod this Chanon it is dere | |
