Tell you I chyll, If that ye wyll A whyle be styll, Of a comely gyll That dwelt on a hyll: But she is not gryll, For she is somwhat sage And well worne in age; For her vysage It would aswage 10 A mannes courage. Her lothely lere Is nothynge clere, But vgly of chere, Droupy and drowsy, Scuruy and lowsy; Her face all bowsy, Comely crynklyd, Woundersly wrynkled, Lyke a rost pygges eare, 20 Brystled wyth here. Her lewde lyppes twayne, They slauer, men sayne, Lyke a ropy rayne, A gummy glayre: She is vgly fayre; Her nose somdele hoked, And camously croked, Neuer stoppynge, But euer droppynge; 30 Her skynne lose and slacke, Grained[475] lyke a sacke; With a croked backe. Her eyen gowndy Are full vnsowndy, For they are blered; And she gray hered; Jawed lyke a jetty; A man would haue pytty To se how she is gumbed, 40 Fyngered and thumbed, Gently ioynted, Gresed and annoynted Vp to the knockels; The bones [of] her huckels[476] Lyke as they were with buckels[477] Togyther made fast: Her youth is farre past: Foted lyke a plane, Legged[478] lyke a crane; 50 And yet she wyll iet, Lyke a iolly fet,[479] In her furred flocket, And gray russet rocket, With symper the cocket. Her huke of Lyncole grene, It had ben hers, I wene, More then fourty yere; And so doth it[480] apere, For[481] the grene bare thredes 60 Loke lyke sere wedes, Wyddered lyke hay, The woll worne away; And yet I dare saye She thynketh herselfe gaye Vpon the holy daye, Whan she doth her aray, And gyrdeth in her gytes[482] Stytched and pranked with pletes;[483] Her kyrtel Brystow red, 70 With clothes vpon her hed That wey[484] a sowe of led, Wrythen in[485] wonder wyse, After the Sarasyns gyse, With a whym wham, Knyt with a trym tram, Vpon her brayne pan, Lyke an Egyptian, Capped[486] about: Whan she goeth out 80 Herselfe for to shewe, She dryueth downe the dewe Wyth a payre of heles As brode as two wheles; She hobles as a gose[487] With her blanket[488] hose Ouer the falowe;[489] Her shone smered wyth talowe, Gresed vpon dyrt That baudeth her skyrt. 90 _Primus passus._