[397: T. 8122-8156.]
The day of wedding cam, but no wight can (190)
Telle what womman that it sholde be;
For which merveille wondred many a man,
And seyden, whan they were in privetee,
‘Wol nat our lord yet leve his vanitee? 250
Wol he nat wedde? allas, allas the whyle!
Why wol he thus him-self and us bigyle?’