The snares and nettes / set in sondrye maner

Doone in tyme past / made many a byrde a dawe

The tempted gynnes / were sette so cyrculer

But euermore it is an olde sayd sawe

Examples past dooth theche one to withdrawe

Frome all suche perylles / wherfore than maye I

By grace of god / beware full parfytly

¶ Pucell.

Ye saye the trouthe / and I do not submytte

My wyll and thought to the lady Venus

As she is goddesse / and doth true loue knytte

Ryght so to determyne / the mater betwene vs

With assent of fortune / so good gracyous

Besechynge you now for to holde you styll

For these two ladyes / maye your mynde fulfyll

¶ Amour.

My ryght dere lady / I do therto consente

Swete are your wordes they confort my thought

Of Venus and fortune / I abyde the Iugement

But ryght dere lady / whome I longe haue sought

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