One daughter haddë they betwixt them two Of twenty year, withouten any mo, Saving a child that was of half year age, In cradle it lay, and was a proper page. 1245 This wenchë thick and well y-growen was, With camuse nose, and eyen gray as glass; With buttocks broad, and breastës round and high; But right fair was her hair, I will not lie. The parson of the town, for she was fair, 1246 In purpose was to make of her his heir Both of his chattels and his messuage, And strange he made it of 1247 her marriáge. His purpose was for to bestow her high Into some worthy blood of ancestry. For holy Church’s good may be dispended 1248 On holy Church’s blood that is descended. Therefore he would his holy blood honoúr, Though that he holy Churchë should devour.