| | How alla kyng shal come a pilgremage | |
| | By herbegeous that wenten hym beforn | |
| 900 | For whiche the senatour as was the vsage | |
| | Rood hym ayens and many of his lynage | |
| | As wel to shewen his magnificence | |
| | As to doon ony kyng reuerence | |
| | Gret chere doth this nobyl senatour | |
| 905 | To kyng alla and he to hym also | |
| | Euery of hem doth to other gret honour | |
| | And so be fyl that on a day or two | |
| | This senatour is to kyng alla go | |
| | To feste shortly and I shal not ly | |
| 910 | Custaunces sone wente in his company | |
| | Sum men wolde say at the request of Custance | |
| | This senatour hadde led this child to feste | |
| | I may not telle euery Circumstaunce | |
| | Be as be may there was he at the leste | |
| 915 | But soth it is right at his moder heste | |
| | Beforn alla duryng the mete space | |
| | The child stood lokyng in the kyngis face | |
| | Alla the kyng of this child hath gret wonder | |
| | And to the senatour he sayde anone | |
| 920 | Whose is this fayre child that stondith yonder | |
| | I not quod he be god and be saynt Iohn | |
| | A moder he hath but fader hath he noon | |
| | That I of woot and shortly in a stounde | |
| | He tolde alla how the child was founde | |
| 925 | But god woot quod this senatour also | |
| | So vertuous a liuere in alle my lif | |
