ANONYMOUS

Therefore to you I answer now.

All 'women to excuse Mine own heart dear, with you what cheer?

I pray you, tell anone ; For, in my mind, of all mankind

I love but you alone.

He. It standeth so: a deed is do

Whereof great harm shall grow: My destiny is for to die

A shameful death, I trow ; Or else to flee. The t* one must be.

None other way I know But to withdraw as an outlaw,

And take me to my bow.

None other rede I can : For I must to the green- wood go,

Alone, a banished man.

She. O Lord, what is this worldis bliss,

That changeth as the moon : My summer's day in lusty May

Is darked before the noon. I hear you say, farewell : Nay, nay,

We depart not so soon. Why say ye so ? whither will ye go ?

Alas ! what have ye done ? All my welfare to sorrow and care

Should change, if ye were gone : For, in my mind, of all mankind

I love but you alone.

rede I can] counsel I know.

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