Their girdles and their pouches every deal. 133 Well seemed each of them a fair burgéss, To sitten in a guild-hall, on the dais. 134 Evereach, for the wisdom that he can, 135 Was shapely 136 for to be an alderman. For chattels haddë they enough and rent, And eke their wivës would it well assent: And ellës certain they had been to blame. It is full fair to be y-clep’d madáme, And for to go to vigils all before, And have a mantle royally y-bore. 137