I have wist, sin I couthe meen 

That children hath by candle light 

Her shadewe on the wal iseen 

And ronne therafter all the night 



Bisy aboute they han ben 

To catchen it with all here might 

And whom they catchen it best wolde wene 

Sannest it shet out of her sight 



The shadewe catchen they ne might 

For no lines that they couthe lay 

This shadewe I may likne aright 

To this world and yesterday 



Bisy aboute they han ben 

To catchen it with all here might 

And whom they catchen it best wolde wene 

Sannest it shet out of her sight 



The shadewe catchen they ne might 

For no lines that they couthe lay 

This shadewe I may likne aright 

To this world and yesterday