The flower and the leaf

THE FLOWER AND THE LEAF.

[letter: W] When that Phebus his chaire of gold so hie [leaf]
Hadde whirled up the sterrie sky alofte, [leaf]
And in the Boole was entred certainely: [leaf]
When shoures sweet of raine discended softe, [leaf]
Causing the ground, fele times & ofte, [leaf]
Up for to give many an wholesome aire, [leaf]
And every plaine was eke yclothed faire

[letter: W] With newe green, and maketh smalle floures [leaf]
To springen here and there in field & mede; [leaf]
So very good & wholsome be the shoures, [leaf]
That it renueth that was old and dede [leaf]
In winter time; and out of every sede [leaf]
Springeth the hearbe, so that every wight [leaf]
Of this season wexeth ful glad and light.

[letter: A] And I, so glad of the season thus swete, [leaf]
Was happed thus upon a certaine nighte: [leaf]
As I lay in my bed, sleepe ful unmete [leaf]
Was unto me, but why that I ne mighte [leaf]
Rest, I ne wiste; for there nas earthly wight, [leaf]
As I suppose, hadde more heartes ease [leaf]
Than I, for I nadde sicknesse nor disease.