Som thing for to fare the bet

693  And with the showting, whan hir song was do,
694  That foules maden at hir flight a-way,
695  I wook, and other bokes took me to
696  To rede upon, and yet I rede alway;
697  In hope, y-wis, to rede so som day
698  That I shal mete som thing for to fare
699  The bet; and thus to rede I nil not spare.

Whether we read this as "yet I rede alway; in hope ..." or "yet I rede alway in hope ...", there is still the turn of thought with that word "yet" (presumably continuation, in the sense "I did this, and I yet do it") rather than qualification ("I did this, yet it wasn't what I wanted"). The "turn" to which I refer is that which renders the closing phrase of the poem a prescription rather merely than a casual reflection -- "to rede I nil not spare."

Is not reading ever this -- the hope that we shall meet "som thing for to fare the bet"? And this encounter will, in some strange way, relieve of us of a different -- and as yet unexpressed -- obligation?