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7069 To cast at us, by every side
7070 To bere his good name wide
7072 Barelles of wyne, by sixe or sevene,
7071 Such sleghtes I shal yow nevene,
7073 Or gold in sakkis gret plente,
7074 He shulde soone delyvered be.
7075 And if noon sich pitaunces,
7076 Late hym study in equipolences,
7077 And late lyes and fallaces,
7078 If that he wolde deserve oure graces;
7079 Or we shal bere hym such witnesse
7080 Of synne, and of his wrecchidnesse,
7081 And done his loos so wide renne,
7082 That al quyk we shulden hym brenne,
7083 Or ellis yeve hym suche penaunce,
7084 That is wel wors than the pitaunce.
7085 'For thou shalt never, for nothing,
7086 Kon knowen aright by her clothing
7087 The traitours full of trecherie,
7088 But thou her werkis can Aspie.
7089 And ne hadde the good kepyng be
7090 Whilom of the universite,
7091 That kepith the key of Cristendome,
7092 Of al that here axe juste their dome
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