(85) LAMANT.
"I haue myn hope so sure and so stedfast, [Fr.: I'ay mon esperance fermee.] [folio 131]
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That sich a lady schuld not faile pyte;
But now, alas, it is schit vp so fast,
That daunger schewth on me his cruelte.
And iffe sche se þe [that T, the H.] vertu fayle in me
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Of trew seruyse, þen sche to faile also
No wondir wer; but þis is the seurte,
I must suffre, which way þat euer hit [I T, it H.] go."
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(86) LA DAME.
"leue [Loue T, Leve H.] this purpos, I rede you for your best;
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ffor, lenger that [UH, the lenger T.] ye kepe hit þus in vayn,
The les ye gete, as of your hertës rest,
And to reioisse hit, schal ye neuer attayne.
When ye abyde goode hope, to make you fayne,
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ye schal be founde a-sotyde [UH, bounde assured T.] in dotage
And in the ende, ye scháll know for sertayne,
That hope schall pay þe wrecches for þer wage." [þer wage H, your wage T, your waye U.]
(87) LAMANT.
"ye say as fallyth most for your plesaunce,
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And your power is grete; al þis I se;
But hope schall neuer out of my Rémembraunce,
By which I felt so grete aduersyte.
ffor when nature hath set in you plente
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Of all goodnes, by vertu and by [UH, hygh T.] grace,
He [He UT, Ne U.] neuer assembled hem, as semyth me,
To put pyte out of his dwellyng place."
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(88) LA DAME.
"Pyte of ryght ought [oweth T, aught H.] to be resonáble, [folio 131b]
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And to no wyght of gret disáuauntage: [disauauntaye . . domaye U.]
Ther as is nede, hit schuld be [by U, be HT.] profytáble,
And to the pytous, schewyng no domage. [disauauntaye . . domaye U.]
