The roste is dressyd."
Beatrix le lauendier
Beatrice the lauendre
Venra cy apres mengier;
Shall come hether after diner;
Se ly baillies les ligne draps;
So gyue her the lynnen clothis. 28
Elle les buera nettement.
She shall wassh them clenly.
"+Berte, escures les pots
"+Berte, skowre the pottes
Contre ces haulz iours
Ayenst thise hye dayes
En le chambre par tout."
In the chambre ouer all." 32

++COlard li orfeure
++COlard the goldsmyth
Me doibt faire
Oweth me to make
Ma chainture,
My gyrdle,
Vne couroye clauwe
A gyrdle nayled 36
dargent, pesant quarant deniers,
With siluer, weyeng xl. pens,

[Sidenote: P. 30.]

Et vng triaclier.
And a triacle boxe.
+Cyprien le tisseran
+Cyprien the weuar
Ma promys a tystre
Hath promysed to weue 40

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[Headnote: NAMES: COLARD--CLEMENCE. _Kempster, Spinster, &c._]

Mon drap
My cloth
Demain ou apres demain.
To morow or after morow.
"Quand y fu le file porte?"
"Whan was the thred theder born?"
"Hier, deuant hier.
"Yesterday, tofore yesterday. 4
Anthan, deuant anthan,
Foryere, tofor foryere,
Ne leust on mye tissu
Hit had not be wouen
Pour autant come a iourdhuy,
For as moche as on this day,
Ne si hastiuement[1]."
Ne so hastyly." 8

[Footnote 1: hastinement]

+Colard ly foulon
+Colard the fuller
Scet bien fouler drap.
Can well fulle cloth.
Si veul ie quil le foule;
So wylle I that he fulle;
Encore est il moult dangereux.
Yet is he moche dangerous. 12
+Conrad li tondeurs
+Conrade the sherman.
Le doibt tondre;
He oweth to shere;
Il prende del aulne quatre mites
He taketh of the elle foure mytes
Puis que les tondeurs
Syth that the sheremen 16
Eurent leur franchise.
Hadde theyr franchise.
+Katherine la pigneresse
+Katherin the kempster
Fu cy a{ur}ain pour argent.
Was hiere right now for moneye.
Elle iura par sa foye
She swore by her faith 20
Quelle ne pigna oncques
That she kembyth neuer
Laine si bien;
Wulle so well;
Pour ce lui payera on bien.
Therfor men shall paye her well.
+Cecile la fyleresse
+Cecyle th