7-line stanza in rhyme royal
Subjects: Love, vicissitudes of; Women, fickleness of
Versification: —
rhyme royal, seven-line —
ababbcc
1.Source: London, British Library Sloane 1825, f. 1
v3
Transcription:yf ye be lusty and of age
be reson ye shold be war and wis
That
your lady play not dotage
With you that ben so sage and dise
For ys she
do hit ys myn avise
That ye hens forth be no betraier
Ne do not a gaynst
a gentile womman prayer
Note: Added to MS flyleaf by a fifteenth-century hand; to right and below is
written by the same hand, ‘
Au iour la vie’; above on same
leaf are
4250 (by same hand and
with same motto) and
6869
(possibly by another hand).