“Alas! unto the barbarous natión I must anon, since that it is your will: But Christ, that starf 1486 for our redemptión, So give me grace his hestës 1487 to fulfil. I, wretched woman, no force though I spill! 1488 Women are born to thraldom and penánce, And to be under mannë’s governance.”

I trow at Troy when Pyrrhus brake the wall, Or Ilion burnt, or Thebes the city, Nor at Rome for the harm through Hannibal, That Romans hath y-vanquish’d timës three, Was heard such tender weeping for pitý, As in the chamber was for her partíng; But forth she must, whether she weep or sing.