And wot ye why? by God, as that I guess, That ye have made a manner strangëness 3775 Betwixtë me and my cousín, Dan John. Ye should have warned me, ere I had gone, That he you had a hundred frankës paid By ready token; he had him evil apaid 3776 For that I to him spake of chevisance, 3777 (He seemed so as by his countenance); But natheless, by God of heaven king, I thoughtë not to ask of him no thing. I pray thee, wife, do thou no morë so. Tell me alway, ere that I from thee go, If any debtor hath in mine absénce Y-payed thee, lest through thy negligence I might him ask a thing that he hath paid.”