The Romaunt of the Rose
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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