glad[d]ed; after whiche tyme no disese, no care, no tene, might 110 move me out of thy hert. And yet am I glad and greetly enpited, how continually thou haddest me in mynde, with good avysement of thy conscience, whan thy king and his princes by huge wordes and grete loked after variaunce in thy speche; and ever thou were redy for my sake, in plesaunce of the Margarite-perle and 115 many mo other, thy body to oblige in-to Marces doing, if any contraried thy sawes. Stedfast way maketh stedfast hert, with good hope in the ende. Trewly, I wol that thou it wel knowe; for I see thee so set, and not chaunginge herte haddest in my service; and I made thou haddest grace of thy kinge, in 120 foryevenesse of mikel misdede. To the gracious king art thou mikel holden, of whos grace and goodnesse somtyme hereafter I thinke thee enforme, whan I shew the ground where-as moral vertue groweth. Who brought thee to werke? Who brought this grace aboute? Who made thy hert hardy? Trewly, it was I. For 125 haddest thou of me fayled, than of this purpos had[dest thou] never taken [hede] in this wyse. And therfore I say, thou might wel truste to come to thy blisse, sithen thy ginninge hath ben hard, but ever graciously after thy hertes desyr hath proceded. Silver fyned with many hetes men knowen for trew; and safely men 130 may trust to the alay in werkinge. This +disese hath proved what way hence-forward thou thinkest to holde.' 'Now, in good fayth, lady,' quod I tho, 'I am now in; me semeth, it is the hye way and the right.' 'Ye, forsothe,' quod she, 'and now I wol disprove thy first 135 wayes, by whiche many men wenen to gette thilke blisse. But for-as-moche as every herte that hath caught ful love, is tyed with queynt knittinges, thou shalt understande that love and thilke foresayd blisse toforn declared in this[e] provinges, shal hote the knot in the hert.' 140 'Wel,' quod I, 'this inpossession I wol wel understande.' 'Now also,' quod she, 'for the knotte in the herte muste ben from one to an-other, and I knowe thy desyr, I wol thou understande these maters to ben sayd of thy-selfe, in disproving of thy first service, and in strengthinge of thilke that thou hast 145 undertake to thy Margaryte-perle.' 'A goddes halfe,' quod I, 'right wel I fele that al this case is possible and trewe; and therfore I +admitte it altogither.' '+Understand wel,' quod she, 'these termes, and loke no contradiccion thou graunt.' 150 'If god wol,' quod I, 'of al these thinges wol I not fayle; and if I graunt contradiccion, I shulde graunte an impossible; and that were a foul inconvenience; for whiche thinges, lady, y-wis, herafter I thinke me to kepe.'