Hise clothes and wepende he seide:

This worldes joie mai be plein.

I hadde al that I coude sein 1540

So whan I cam toward this place

Ther was non gladdere man than I:

Tohewe and brenne in thi servise

The Maiden, whan sche wiste of this, 1550

And sih the sorwe hir fader made,