QUI SERERE INGENUUM.
— Metrum 1
"Whoso wole sowe a feld plentevous, let hym first delyvren
it of thornes, and kerve asondir with his hook the bussches and
the feern, so that the corn may comen hevy of erys and of
greynes. Hony is the more swete, if mouthes han first tasted
savours that ben wykke. The sterres schynen more aggreablely whan
the wynd Nothus leteth his plowngy blastes; and aftir that
Lucifer, the day-sterre, hath chased awey the dirke nyght, the
day the fairere ledeth the rosene hors (of the
sonne). And ryght so thow, byhooldyng ferst the false
goodes, bygyn to withdrawe thy nekke
fro the yok (of erthely affeccions); and
afterward the verray goodes schullen entren into thy corage."
