And then at last another said, that he would have "eyren"; then the goodwife said that she understood him well.

Lo, what should a man in these days now write, eggs or eyren?
Certainly it is hard to please every man because of diversity and change of language.

For in these days every man that is in any reputation in his country will utter his communication and matters in such manners and terms that few men shall understand them.
And some honest and great clerks have been with me and desired me to write the most curious terms that I could find; and thus between plain, rude and curious I stand abashed.

But in my judgment the common terms that be daily used be lighter to be understood than the old and ancient English.

And forasmuch as this present book is not for a rude uplandish man to labour therein ne read it, but only for a clerk and a noble gentleman that feeleth and understandeth in feats of arms, in love and in noble chivalry.