| I have wist, sin I couthe meen, | |
| That children hath by candle light | |
| I have wist, sin I couthe meen, | |
| That children hath by candle light | |
| Her shadewe on the wal iseen, | |
| And ronne therafter all the night. | |
| Bisy aboute they han they han ben | |
| And whom they catchen it best wolde wene | |
| I have wist, sin I couthe meen, | |
| That children hath by candle light | |
| The shadewe catchen they ne might, | |
| For no lines that they couthe lay. | |
| This shadewe I may likne aright | |
| To this world and yesterday. | |
| Bisy aboute they han they han ben | |
| And whom they catchen it best wolde wene | |
| I have wist, sin I couthe meen, | |
| That children hath by candle light | |
| Her shadewe on the wal iseen, | |
| And ronne therafter all the night. | |
| Bisy aboute they han they han ben | |
| And whom they catchen it best wolde wene | |
| Bisy aboute they han they han ben | |
| And whom they catchen it best wolde wene |