| | Loke eke how the kynge Emetrus | |
| 295 | Sente hym a peyre of dyse in scorn | |
| | For he hadde vsed hasardrye ther be forn | |
| | For whiche he held his glorye and his renoun | |
| | At no value as of reputacioun | |
| | Lordis mighten fynde othir maner pley | |
| 300 | Honest ynough to dryue the day awey | |
| | N | Ow wol I speke of othis fals and grete | |
| | A word or two as many bokes trete | |
| | Greet swering is thing abhominabil | |
| | And fals swering is a thing more reprouable | |
| 305 | The high god forbad swering at all | |
| | Witnes of Mathew but in special | |
| | Of swering saith holi Iheromye | |
| | Thou shalt swere soth thyn othis and not lye | |
| | And swere in dome and in rightwisnes | |
| 310 | But ydil swering is a cursidnes | |
| | Behold and se that in the firste tabil | |
| | Of high goddis hestis honourabil | |
| | How that the seconde heste of hym is this | |
| | Take not myn name in ydilnes amys | |
| 315 | Lo rather he forbedith suche swering | |
| | Or homycidy or ony other cursid thing | |
| | I say as be ordre thus it stondith | |
| | This knoweth they þt his hestis vnderstondith | |
| | Hou that the seconde heste of god is that | |
| 320 | And furthirmore I wil the telle at plat | |
| | That vengeaunce shal not parte from the hous | |
| | That of his othis is outrageous | |
