| | Wrastil be verry force and verry myght | |
| | With ony yong man were he neuer so wight | |
| 270 | There myghte nothing in her armys stonde | |
| | She kepte her maydenhede from euery wight | |
| | To noman deyned she to be bonde | |
| | But atte last her frendis haue her maryed | |
| | To Onedak a prince of a Cite | |
| 275 | Al were it so . that she hem longe taryed | |
| | And ye shul vnderstonde how that he | |
| | Hadde suche fantesies as had she | |
| | But natheles when they were knet in fere | |
| | They lyuyd in ioye and infelicite | |
| 280 | For ech of theym hadde other leef and dere | |
| | Saue o thing that she nolde neuer assent | |
| | Be no wey that he sholde be her ly | |
| | But onys for it was her pleyn entent | |
| | To haue a child the worlde to multiplye | |
| 285 | And also sone as she myghte aspye | |
| | That she was not with childe with that dede | |
| | Thanne wolde she suffir hym do his fantesie | |
| | Eft sonys and nat but onys oute of drede | |
| | And yf she were with childe at that cast | |
| 290 | Nomore shulde he pleye that game | |
| | Til fully . xl . daies were y past | |
| | Thenne wolde she onys suffir hym the same | |
| | Al were this Onedak wilde or tame | |
| | He gat nomore of here for thus she sayde | |
| 295 | It was to wyuys lecherie and shame | |
| | In other caas yf men with hem playde | |