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¶ In hire is heigh beautee / with oute pryde
Youthe / with outen grenehede / or folye
To alle hir werkes / vertu is hir gyde
Humblesse / hath slayn in hire al tirannye
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She is Mirour / of al curteisye
Hir herte / is verray chambre of holynesse
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 come agayn
Thise Marchauntz / han doon fraught hir shippes newe
And whan they han / this blisful mayden sayn
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Hom 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 Marchauntz stode in grace
Of hym / that was the Sowdan of Surrye
ffor whan they coome / from any straunge place
He wolde / of his benygne curteisye
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Maken hem good cheere / and bisily espye
Tidynges / of sondry regnes for to leere
The wondres / that they myghte seen or heere
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¶ [Am]onges othere thynges specially [folio 114b]
Thise Marchauntz han hym told / of dame Custaunce
So greet noblesse / in ernest ceriously [.i. ceriose]
That this Sowdan / hath caught so greet plesaunce
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To han hir figure / in his remembraunce
That al his lust / and al his bisy cure
Was for to loue hire / whil his lyf may dure
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¶ Parauenture / in thilke large book
Which þat men clepe the heuene / ywriten was
With sterres / whan þat he his birthe took/
That he for loue / sholde han his deth allas
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