| | For it was of no superfluyte | |
| | But of greet norisshinge and digestible | |
| 440 | His stody was but litil on the bybyll | |
| | In sangwen and in perce I clad with all | |
| | Lyned with taffata and whit sandall | |
| | And litil he was of his dispence | |
| | He kepte that he whan in the pestelence | |
| 445 | For gold in phisik is a cordial | |
| | Therfore he loued gold in special | |
| | A | Good wif ther was of beside bathe | |
| | And she was somdeel deef & þt was scathe | |
| | Of cloth makynge had she suche an haunt | |
| 450 | She passid hem of ypre or of gaunt | |
| | In al the parisshe wif was ther non | |
| | That to the offrynge before hir sholde goon | |
| | And if ther did certayn wroth was she | |
| | Than was she oute of al charite | |
| 455 | Her kercheuys ful fyn were of ground | |
| | I durste swere they weyed thre pound | |
| | That on a sunday were on hir hed | |
| | Hir hosyn were of fyne scarlet reed | |
| | Ful streyte I teyd and shoos ful newe | |
| 460 | Bold was her face fair & reed of hewe | |
| | She was a worthy womman al hir lyue | |
| | Husbondis at the chirche dore hadde she fyue | |
| | Withoute other companye in youthe | |
| | But her of nedith not to speke as nowthe | |
| 465 | At acres had she been and at Iherusaleme | |
| | She had passid thouron many a stronge reme | |
