The Proverbe Saith That Many A Smale

Or As An Ook Comth Of A Litel Spir, So Thorugh This Lettre, Which That She Hym Sente, Encressen Gan Desir, Of Which He Brente.

And For To See, And Eek For To Be Seie.

Ful Wys Is He That Kan Hymselven Knowe.

For Hym Was Levere Have At His Beddes Heed Twenty Bookes, Clad In Blak Or Reed, Of Aristotle And His Philosophie, Than Robes Riche, Or Fithele, Or Gay Sautrie.

Forbid Us Something, And That Thing We Desire.