“For thilkë spousë, that she took but new, 4493 Full like a fierce lión, she sendeth here, As meek as e’er was any lamb to ewe.” And with that word anon there gan appear An old man, clad in whitë clothës clear, That had a book with letters of gold in hand, And gan before Valerian to stand.

Valerian, as dead, fell down for dread, When he him saw; and he up hent 4494 him tho, 4495 And on his book right thus he gan to read; “One Lord, one faith, one God withoutë mo’, One Christendom, one Father of all alsó, Aboven all, and over all everywhere.” These wordës all with gold y-written were.