No wonder is, for in her great estate Her ghost 2656 was ever in plein 2657 humility; No tender mouth, no heartë delicate, No pomp, and no semblánt of royalty; But full of patient benignity, Discreet and pridëless, aye honouráble, And to her husband ever meek and stable.

Men speak of Job, and most for his humbléss, As clerkës, when them list, can well indite, Namely 2658 of men; but, as in soothfastness, Though clerkës praisë women but a lite, 2659 There can no man in humbless him acquite As women can, nor can be half so true As women be, but it be fall of new. 2660