“And yet, God wot, this is full loth 2541 to me: But natheless withoutë your weeting 2542 I will nought do; but this will I,” quoth he, “That ye to me assenten in this thing. Shew now your patience in your working, That ye me hight 2543 and swore in your villáge The day that maked was our marriáge.”

When she had heard all this, she not amev’d 2544 Neither in word, in cheer, nor countenance (For, as it seemed, she was not aggriev’d); She saidë; “Lord, all lies in your pleasánce, My child and I, with hearty obeisánce Be yourës all, and ye may save or spill 2545 Your owen thing: work then after your will.