Blac

Blac is the colour that is good,

so say I and many mo;

blac is my hat, blac is my hood

blac is all that longeth therto.

Summe men sayen that I am blac -

it is a colour for my prow;

ther I love, ther is no lac,

I may not be so white as thou.

blac wol do as good a nede

as the white at bord and bedde;

and therto also trew in dede,

and therto I ley my lif to wedde.

Wind and water may steyne the white,

iwis; the blac it may not so.

ther is the blac is all my delite;

I am iholde be skile therto.

pepper withoute it is well blac,

iwis; withinne it is not so.

lat go the colour an tak the smac,

this I sey by me and mo.