| | Tyl we be ded or ellis that we pleye | |
| | A pilgremage or goon out of the wey | |
| 235 | And therfore haue I gret necessite | |
| | Vp on this queynte worlde to auyse me | |
| | For euer more we muste stonde in drede | |
| | Of hap and fortune in our Chapmanhede | |
| | To Flaundris wol I go to morow at day | |
| 240 | And come ayeen as sone as euer I may | |
| | For whiche dere wyf I the beseke | |
| | As be to euery wight buxum and meke | |
| | And forto kepe our good be corious | |
| | And honestly gouerne wel our hous | |
| 245 | Thou hast ynough in euery maner wyse | |
| | That to a thrifty housold may suffise | |
| | The lackid none aray ne non vitayl | |
| | Of siluer in thy purs shalt thou not fayll | |
| | And with that word his countordore he shit | |
| 250 | And doun he goth he wolde no lenger lette | |
| | But hastely amasse was there said | |
| | And spedely the tablis were leid | |
| | And to dyner faste they hem spedde | |
| | And richely the chapman this monk fedde | |
| 255 | And aftir dynere Dan Iohn sobirly | |
| | This chapman toke apart propirly | |
| | And sayde hym thus / cosyn it stondith so | |
| | That wel I se to Briggis wol ye go | |
| | God and saint Augustyn spede you and gyde | |
| 260 | I pray you cosyn wisely thedir ye ryde | |
| | Gouerne you also weel of your diete | |
