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But at Boloigne / to his suster deere
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That thilke tyme / of Pavik was Countesse
He sholde it take / and shewe hire this mateere
Bisekynge hire / to doon hire bisynesse
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This child to fostre / in alle gentillesse
And whos child that it was / he bad hym hyde
ffrom euery wight/ for oght þat may bityde
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¶ The sergeant gooth / and hath fulfild this thyng
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But to this Markys / now retourne we
ffor now gooth he / ful faste ymaginyng
If by his wyues cheere / he myghte se
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Or by hire word aperceyue / that she?
Were chaunged / but he neuere hire koude fynde
But euere in oon / ylike sad and kynde
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As glad / as humble / as bisy in seruyse [¶ par alacritas atque sedalitas solitum obs[e]|quium / idem amor nulla filie mencio. ]
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And eek in loue / as she was wont to be
Was she to hym / in euery maner wyse
Ne of hir doghter/ noght a word spak she
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Noon accident for noon aduersitee
Was seyn in hire / ne neuere hir doghter name
Ne nempned she / in ernest / nor in game
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¶ Explicit tercia pars .
Sequitur pars quarta . [folio 99a]
IN this estaat/ ther passed been foure yeer [¶ transiuerant hoc in statu anni iiijor. dum ecce grauida &cetera. ]
Er she with childe was / but as god wolde
A man child she bar / by this Walter
fful gracious / and fair for to biholde
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And whan that folk it to his fader tolde
Nat oonly he / but al his contree merye
Was for this child / and god they thanke and herye
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Whan it was two yeer old / and fro the brest
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Departed of his norice / on a day
This Markys / caughte yet another lest
