Whan hit is so, ich vouchesaue, [vouchsave]
Ich forȝiue þe þis gilte.
Þe fals wolf stode behind,
He was doggid and ek felle:
"Ich am icom of grete kind,
Pes þou grant [graunt] me, þat [Ms. ursprüngl. þou] miȝt ful welle.
"What hast ido, bel amy,
Þat þou me so oxist pes?"
"Sire, he seid, i nel noȝt lie,
If þou me woldist hire a res.
For ich huntid vp þe doune [folio 46b]
To loke, sire, mi biȝete;
Þer ich slow a motune,
Ȝe, sire, [Sir] and fewe gete.
Ich am iwreiid, sire, to þe
For þat ilk gilt;
Sire, ichul sker me
Y [I] ne ȝef ham dint no pilt."
"For seþ, i sigge þe, bel ami,
Hi naddo no gode munde,
Þai þat wreiid þe to merci (?), [Wr. mei, Ms. mei]
Þou ne diddist noȝt bot þi kund.
Sei þou me, asse, wat hast ido?
Me þenchiþ, þou cannist no gode.
Whi nadistou [do] [do fehlt im Ms.] as oþer mo?
Þou come of liþer stode."
"Sertis, sire, not ich noȝt,
Ich ete sage and uil (?) [Ms. alnil = a' uil? Wright übersetzt: only] gras,
More harm ne did ich noȝt;
Þer for iwreiid ich was."
"Bel ami, þat was misdo,
Þat was aȝe þi kund,
Forto et [ete] such gras so.
Hastilich ȝe him bind
