The burden of the beasts of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the humps of camels, to a people that shall not profit 'them'.
Þe birthun of werk beestis of þe south. In þe lond of tribulacioun and of angwisch, a lionesse, and a lioun, of hem a serpent, and a cocatrice; þei weren berynge her richessis on þe schuldris of werk beestis, and her tresours on þe botche of camels, to a puple þat myyte not profite to hem.