Your appetite is to be light Of love, I well espy: For, right as ye have said to me, 245 In likewise hardily 240 It were mine ease to live in peace; Wherefore I to the wood will go, SHE. Though in the wood I understood HE. 254 300 All this may nought remove my thought, And she shall find me soft and kind 305 For, in my mind, of all mankind Mine own dear love, I see the proves Of maid, of wife, in all my life The best that ever I knew; 310 315 Wherefore I to the wood will go, Alone, a banished man. SHE. If ye take heed, it is no need HE. Such words to say to me; For oft ye prayed, and long assayed, Or I loved you, pardé: A baron's daughter be, And though that I of ancestry Yet have you proved how I you loved, A squire of low degree; And ever shall, whatso befall, To die therefore anone; For, in my mind, of all mankind I love but you alone. A baron's child to be beguiled, To be feláw with an outlaw- • Health. 265 I will not to the green-wood go; SHE. These tidings be more glad to me If I were sure they should endure; 325 |