| | Vp on prouerbe that saith the same word | |
| | Wel bet is roten appyl oute of horde | |
| | Then that he roten al the remenaunt | |
| | So farith it be a riotous seruaunt | |
| 45 | It is ful lasse harm to lat hym pas | |
| | Than he sholde al the seruauntis in the plas | |
| | Therfore his maister yaf hym acquietaunce | |
| | And bad hym go with sorou & myschaunce | |
| | And thus this ioly prentis hadde his leue | |
| 50 | Now let hym riot al the nyght or leue | |
| | And ther is no theef withouten look | |
| | That helpith hym to waste or to sowke | |
| | Of that he brybe can or borow may | |
| | Anon he sellith his bed and his aray | |
| 55 | Vnto a compiere of his owen sorte | |
| | That louyth dyse ryot and disporte | |
| | And hadde a wyf that held for contenaunce | |
| | A shoppe & swyued for hir sustenaunce | |
| | ¶ Here endith the Cokys tale And | |
| | begynneth the man of lawis prolog | |
| | OVre hoost saw that by the bright sonne | |
| | The ark of his artificial day had ronne | |
| | The fourthe part and half an houre & more | |
| | And theygh he were not deppest stert in lore | |
| 5 | He wiste it was the . xviij . day | |
| | Of april that is messanger to may | |
| | And saw wel that the shadow of euery tre | |
| | Was in lengthe of the same quantite | |
| | That was the body erect that causid it | |
