That since his facë was so disfigúr’d Of malady the which he had endúr’d, He mightë well, if that he bare him low, 409 Live in Athenës evermore unknow, And see his lady well-nigh day by day. And right anon he changed his array, And clad him as a poorë labourer. And all alone, save only a squiér, That knew his privity 410 and all his cas, 411 Which was disguised poorly as he was, To Athens is he gone the nextë 412 way. And to the court he went upon a day, And at the gate he proffer’d his service, To drudge and draw, what so men would devise. 413 And, shortly of this matter for to sayn, He fell in office with a chamberlain, The which that dwelling was with Emily.