Oh!  I coulde waile mie kynge-coppe-decked mees[26],
    Mie spreedynge flockes of shepe of lillie white,
    Mie tendre applynges[27], and embodyde[28] trees,
    Mie Parker’s Grange[29], far spreedynge to the syghte,
    Mie cuyen[30] kyne [31], mie bullockes stringe[32] yn syghte, 35
    Mie gorne[33] emblaunched[34] with the comfreie[35] plante,
    Mie floure[36] Seyncte Marie shotteyng wythe the lyghte,
    Mie store of all the blessynges Heaven can grant. 
    I amm duressed[37] unto sorrowes blowe,
  Ihanten’d[38] to the peyne, will lette ne salte teare flowe. 40

  RAUFE.

    Here I wille obaie[39] untylle Dethe doe ’pere,
    Here lyche a foule empoysoned leathel[40] tree,
    Whyche sleaeth[41] everichone that commeth nere,
    Soe wille I fyxed unto thys place gre[42]. 
    I to bement[43] haveth moe cause than thee; 45
    Sleene in the warre mie boolie[44] fadre lies;
    Oh! joieous I hys mortherer would slea,
    And bie hys syde for aie enclose myne eies. 
    Calked[45] from everych joie, heere wylle I blede;
  Fell ys the Cullys-yatte[46] of mie hartes castle stede. 50

  ROBERTE.

    Oure woes alyche, alyche our dome[47] shal bee. 
    Mie sonne, mie sonne alleyn[48], ystorven[49] ys;
    Here wylle I staie, and end mie lyff with thee;
    A lyff lyche myn a borden ys ywis. 
    Now from een logges[50] fledden is selyness[51], 55
    Mynsterres[52] alleyn[53] can boaste the hallie[54] Seyncte,
    Now doeth Englonde weare a bloudie dresse
    And wyth her champyonnes gore her face depeyncte;
    Peace fledde, disorder sheweth her dark rode[55],
  And thorow ayre doth flie, yn garments steyned with bloude. 60

[Footnote 1:  Smething, smoking; in some copies bletheynge, but in the original as above.]

[Footnote 2:  deadly.]

[Footnote 3:  pluck or pull.]

[Footnote 4:  Surcote, a cloke, or mantel, which hid all the other dress.]

[Footnote 5:  shepherds.]

[Footnote 6:  abruptly, so Chaucer, Syke he abredden dyd attourne.]

[Footnote 7:  affright.]

[Footnote 8:  Added.]

[Footnote 9:  sad.]

[Footnote 10:  woeful, lamentable.]

[Footnote 11:  the Devil.]

[Footnote 12:  might.]

[Footnote 13:  sweet.]

[Footnote 14:  good, neat, genteel.]

[Footnote 15:  groves, sometimes used for a coppice.]

[Footnote 16:  far-seen.]

[Footnote 17:  Hermit.]

[Footnote 18:  violin.]

[Footnote 19:  sounding.]

[Footnote 20:  inn, or public-house.]

[Footnote 21:  also.]

[Footnote 22:  pleasure.]

[Footnote 23:  annoying.]