354 Than may be giv’n to any earthly man: Therefore positive law, and such decree, Is broke alway for love in each degree A man must needës love, maugré his head. 355 He may not flee it, though he should be dead, All be she 356 maid, or widow, or else wife. And eke it is not likely all thy life To standen in her grace, no more than I: For well thou wost thyselfë verily, That thou and I be damned to prisón Perpetual, us gaineth no ranson. We strive, as did the houndës for the bone; They fought all day, and yet their part was none. There came a kite, while that they were so wroth, And bare away the bone betwixt them both. And therefore at the kingë’s court, my brother, Each man for himselfë, there is no other. Love if thee list; for I love and aye shall: And soothly, levë brother, this is all. Here in this prison musten we endure,