133. unreason (_twice_). 135. reason. 138. sayenges. toforne. 139. affection. 140. nowe. the. disease. the. 146. reason (_twice_). 147. vnbyde; _read_ onbyde. purpose. 148. unreason. remenante. the. 150. fre. 149-151. reason (_thrice_). 154. weuest; _read_ weyvest thou. 155. bonde. 156. gone. 158. ringe. 160. parfyte. * _A break here in_ Th. CHAPTER VII. 'Very trouth,' quod she, 'hast thou now conceyved of these thinges in thyne herte; hastely shalt thou be able very joye and parfit blisse to receyve; and now, I wot wel, thou desyrest to knowe the maner of braunches that out of the tree shulde springe.' 5 'Therof, lady,' quod I, 'hertely I you pray; for than leve I +wel, that right sone after I shal ataste of the frute that I so long have desyred.' 'Thou hast herd,' quod she, 'in what wyse this tree toforn this have I declared, as in grounde and in stocke of wexing. First, 10 the ground shulde be thy free wil, ful in thyne herte; and the stocke (as I sayde) shulde be continuaunce in good service by long tyme in traveyle, til it were in greetnesse right wel woxen. And whan this tree suche greetnesse hath caught as I have rehersed, the braunches than, that the frute shulde forth-bringe, 15 speche must they be nedes, in voice of prayer in complayning wyse used.' 'Out! alas!' quod I tho, 'he is soroufully wounded that hydeth his speche, and spareth his complayntes to make! What shal I speke the care? But payne, even lyk to helle, sore hath 20 me assayled, and so ferforth in payne me thronge, that I leve my tree is seer, and never shal it frute forth bringe! Certes, he is greetly esed, that dare his prevy mone discover to a true felowe, that conning hath and might, wherthrough his pleint in any thinge may ben amended. And mokel more is he joyed, that with herte 25 of hardinesse dare complayne to his lady what cares that he suffreth, by hope of mercy with grace to be avaunced. Truely I saye for me, sithe I cam this Margarit to serve, durst I never me discover of no maner disese; and wel the later hath myn herte hardyed suche thinges to done, for the grete bountees and worthy 30 refresshmentes that she of her grace goodly, without any desert on my halve, ofte hath me rekened. And nere her goodnesse the more with grace and with mercy medled, which passen al desertes, traveyls, and servinges that I in any degre might endite, I wolde wene I shulde be without recover, in getting of this blisse for 35 ever! Thus have I stilled my disese; thus have I covered my care; that I brenne in sorouful anoy, as gledes and coles wasten a fyr under deed asshen. Wel the hoter is the fyr that with asshen it is overleyn. Right longe this wo have I suffred.'