"O Lord," she said, "Jesus Christ, That sinful mannes bedes, Underfong this present, And help this seli innocent!

And thei eten more gladly mannes flessche, thanne ony other flesche.

And in the same maner as the men gon, the wommen gon; so that no man may unethe knowe the men fro the wommen, saf only tho wommen, that ben maryed, that beren the tokne upon hire hedes of a mannes foot, in signe that thei ben undre mannes fote and undre subieccioun of man.

So at thirty yeres man is in chief lyking, Pleasaunt and lustie to every mannes sygth, (4)