Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child: wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?
Axe ye, and se, if a male berith child; whi þerfor siy Y þe hond of ech man on his leende, as of a womman trauelynge of child, and alle faces ben turned in to yelow colour?