In hire / is heigh beautee / with oute pride [folio 55a]
Yowthe / with oute grenehede / or folye
To alle hire werkes / vertu is hir gyde
Humblesse / hath slayn in hire al tirannye
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She is Mirour / of alle curteisye
Hir herte / is verray chambre of hoolynesse
Hir hand / Ministre of fredam for almesse
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And al this voys was sooth / as god is trewe
But now to purpos / lat vs turne agayn
Thise Marchantz / han doon fraught / hir shippes newe
And whan they han / this blisful mayden sayn
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Hoom to Surrye / been they went ful fayn
And doon hir nedes / as they han doon yoore
And lyuen in wele / I kan sey yow namoore
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¶ Now fil it that thise Marchantz / stode in grace
Of hym / that was the Sowdan of Surrye
ffor whan they cam / from any strange place
He wolde / of his benigne curteisye
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Make hem good chiere / and bisily espye
Tidynges / of sondry regnes for to leere
The wondres / that they myghte seen or heere
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Amonges othere thynges specially
Thise Marchantz / han hym toold / of dame Custance
So greet noblesse / in ernest ceriously [.i. ceriose]
That this Sowdan / hath caught so greet plesance
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To han hir figure / in his remembrance
That all his lust and al his bisy cure
Was for to loue hire / while his lyf may dure
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Parauenture / in thilke large book/
Which þat men clipe the heuene / ywriten was
With sterres / whan that he his birthe took/
That he for loue / sholde han his deeth allas
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