And with hir generit 18 lady Chaistitie
And dame Devotioun, notabyll of name.
Humyll thay wer, simpyll, and full of
schame.

Thus Chaistitie and dame Devotioun
Wer principall cause of thair promotioun.

"Thus thay contynewit in this lyfe devyne Aye tyll thare rang,14 in Romes gret cietie,

Ane potent prince was namit Constantyne, Persavit the Kirk had spowsit Povertie.

With gude intent, and movit of pietie, 180 Cause of divorce he fande betuix thame two,

And partit thame, withouttin wordis mo.

'Syne, schortlie, with ane gret solempnitie, Withouttin ony dispensatioun,

The Kirk he spowsit with dame Propirtie,
Quhilk haistelye, be proclamatioun,
To Povertie gart 15 mak narratioun,
Under the pane of peirsyng of hir eine,16
That with the Kirk scho sulde no more be
seine.