4027   'Iff Bialacoil be sweete and free,
4028   Dogged and fell thou shuldist be;
4029   ffroward and outerageous, ywis;
4030   A cherl chaungeth that curteis is.
4031   This have I herd ofte in seiyng,
4032   That man may, for no dauntyng,
4033   Make a sperhauke of a bosarde.
4034   Alle men wole holde thee for musarde,
4035   That debonair have founden thee,
4036   It sittith thee nought curteis to be;
4037   To do men plesaunce or servise,
4038   In thee it is recreaundise.
4039   Lete thi werkis, fer and nere,
4040   Be like thi name, which is daungere.
4041   Thanne, all abawid in shewing,
4042   Anoon spake drede, right thus seiyng,
4043   And seide, 'daunger, I drede me
4044   That thou ne wolt bisy be
4045   To kepe that thou hast to kepe;
4046   Whanne thou shuldist wake, thou art Aslepe.
4047   Thou shalt be greved certeynly,
4048   If thee aspie Ielousie,
4049   Or if he fynde thee in blame.
4050   He hath to day assailed shame,