“The remnant of your jewels ready be Within your chamber, I dare safely sayn: Naked out of my father’s house,” quoth she, “I came, and naked I must turn again. All your pleasance would I follow fain: 2637 But yet I hope it be not your intent That smockless 2638 I out of your palace went.

“Ye could not do so dishonést 2639 a thing, That thilkë 2640 womb, in which your children lay, Shouldë before the people, in my walking, Be seen all bare: and therefore I you pray, Let me not like a worm go by the way: Remember you, mine owen Lord so dear, I was your wife, though I unworthy were.