245And what soeuer she too my mai steris doth saye

246It is writen in the gospell of the same daye

247Therfore I woll here with my selfe deuise

248What I may be st say, and in what wise

249I may excuse this my long taryeng

250That she of my negligence may suspect nothyng

251For if the fault of this befound in mee

252I may giue me life for halpenis three

254Let me stodie this moneth & I shall not fiend

255A better deuise then now is cume to my mynd

256Mai stries woll I saye, I am bound by my dutie

257To see that your womanhod haue noo iniurie

258For I heare and see more then you now and then

259And your selfe partlie know the wantin wyles of men

260When wee came yender there dyd I see

261My may ster ki s s e gentilwomen tow or three

262And to come emongs others my thought bysye

263He had a myruayllus great phantasye

264A non he commaundyd me to run thens for you

265To cũe supe ther if you wold but I wot not how

266My hart grudgid mi stru sting le st yt I being awai

267My mai ster wold sum light ca st playe

268Whervpon mai stries to see the ende

269I tarried halfe supper time so god me mend

270And besyds that ther was such other compainye

271As I know your mai stri ship settith nothyng by

272Gorges damies of the corte and galaunts also

273With doctours, and other rufflers mo

274At la st when I thought it tyme and seasune

275I cam too certifie you as it was reasune

276And by the way whome should I mete