After meat, by the chimney in chamber they sit + 

And comfort them well with the winsome wine; + 

And again in their game they agreed on the morn + 

To fulfil the same foreward as before they had made: + 

As fortune should chance, their winnings to change⁠— + 

Aught new that they got, at night when they met. + 

This covenant they accorded before all the court, + 

And the beverage was brought, with bourd and with jest. + 

Then a lovesome leave they took at the last, + 

For all to their beds must busk them anon. + 

When the cock had crow’n and cackled but thrice, + 

Then leapt up the lord, and his lieges each one; + 

And when mass and morsel they had meetly taken, + 

Ere dawn’d any day they dress’d to the forest, + 

to chase; + 

Loudly with hunt and horns + 

Through plains they pass’d apace, + 

Uncoupled, among the thorns, + 

The hounds so swift to race. + 