To Keep Demands As Much Skill As

Time Lost, As Men May See, For Nothing May Recovered Be.

By God, If Women Had Written Stories, As Clerks Had Within Here Oratories, They Would Have Written Of Men More Wickedness Than All The Mark Of Adam May Redress.

The Lyf So Short, The Craft So Long To Lerne.

A Yokel Mind Loves Stories From Of Old, Being The Kind It Can Repeat And Hold.

Take A Cat, Nourish It Well With Milk And Tender Meat, Make It A Couch Of Silk.