(2)
I am aryved to a perilous port,
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ne knowe I nought to whom I may retourne;
I am arrest; now kan I non confort;
mawgre my selfe, right here mot I soiourne;
For my mysshappe, A cause haue I to mourne;
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And in my skrippe now fynde I no vetayle, [folio 8b]
ne my burdonë doth me nought avayle.
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(3)
Burdone ne skrippe may I no lengere bere,
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Myne enemy so sore assaileth me;
I holde it best to cast awey this gere,
And shape my selfe preuély for to flee.
O blisful lord, I wis it wele nought be,
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And weel þou woot, how þat me hath bywiled
Myne enemy that hath now me defiled.
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(4)
Wherfore now I am brought to iugëment,
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Sithe I am falle in myschieff and porcert,
Ne I ne may, to myn accusëment,
Ne can nought say but aftir my desert,
And my trespace, that knowë is apert,
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If þat I shall myne [MS. alle myne] réwarde vnderfonge:
Allas! whi have I be synfull so longe.
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(5)
But best it is, if reason say me trowthe,
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That of some helpe I make me purveaunce;
Parde, some wight on me wil havë rewthe;
Asay I shal; but, for my sustenaunce,
My burdone must I bere for suffisaunce,
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For, myght withowt[en] it [ne] haue I none;
I bere it nought; it berith my persone.
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(6)
Allas, but I haue now experience
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Off wis[ë]dam, my selffë to demeane,
To éxcuse me have I none audience,
And alle my witte availeth not a beane;
Thus is myne hope alle discounfórted clene,
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