“But natheless I see your true intent, And trust upon your wit, and have done aye: Wherefore of my free will I will assent To weddë me, as soon as e’er I may. But whereas ye have proffer’d me to-day To choosë me a wife, I you release That choice, and pray you of that proffer cease.

“For God it wot, that children often been Unlike their worthy elders them before, Bounté 2458 comes all of God, not of the strene 2459 Of which they be engender’d and y-bore: I trust in Goddë’s bounté, and therefore My marriage, and mine estate and rest, I him betake; 2460 he may do as him lest.