[6-text p 438]
¶ O tendre / o deere / o yonge children myne
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Youre woful mooder / wende stedfastly
That crueel houndes / or som foul vermyne
Hadde eten yow / but god of his mercy
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And youre benyngne fader / tendrely
Hath doon yow kept and in that same stounde
Al sodeynly / she swapte adoun to grounde
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And in hire swough / so sadly holdeth she
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Hire children two / whan she gan hem tembrace
That with greet sleighte / and greet difficultee
The children / from hire arm they gonne arace
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O many a teere / on many a pitous face
Doun ran / of hem þat stooden hire bisyde
Vnnethe abouten hire / myghte they abyde
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¶ Walter hire gladeth / and hire sorwe slaketh [folio 105a]
She riseth vp abaysed / from hire trance
And euery wight / hire ioye and feeste maketh
Til she / hath caught agayn hire contenance
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Walter hire dooth / so feithfully plesance
That it was deyntee / for to seen the cheere
Bitwixe hem two / now they been met yfeere
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¶ Thise ladyes / whan that they hir tyme say
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Han taken hire / and in to chambre gon
And strepen hire / out of hire rude array
And in a clooth of gold / þat brighte shoon
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With a coroune / of many a riche stoon
Vp on hire heed / they in to halle hire broghte
And ther she was / honured as hire oghte
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Thus hath this pitous day a blisful ende
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ffor euery man and womman dooth his myght
This day / in murthe and reuel to dispende
Til on the welkne / shoon the sterres lyght
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