[6-text p 143]
The fruyt of this matere / is þat I telle
Whan tyme cam / men thoughte it for the beste
That reuel stynte / and men go to hir reste
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¶ The tyme cam / this olde Sowdanesse
Ordeyned hath this feste / of which I tolde
And to the feste / cristen folk hem dresse
In general / ye bothe yonge and olde
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Heer may men feste / and roialtee biholde
And deyntees mo / than I kan yow deuyse
But al to deere / they boghte it er they ryse
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¶ O sodeyn wo / that euere art Successour [¶ nota de inopinato dolore ¶ Semper mundane leticie / tristicia repentina succedit / Mundana igitur felicitas multis ama|ritudinibus est respersa extrema gaudij luctus occupat / Audi ergo salubre consilium in die bonorum ne inmemor sis malorum.]
To worldly blisse / spreynd with bitternesse
The ende of the ioye / of oure worldly labour
Wo ocupieth / the fyn of oure gladnesse
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Herke this conseil / for thy sikernesse
Vp on thy glade day / haue in thy mynde
The vnwar wo / or harm / þat comth bihynde
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¶ ffor shortly / for to tellen / at a word [folio 118a]
The Sowdan / and the cristen euerychone
Been al to-hewe / and stiked at the bord
But it were oonly / dame Custaunce allone
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This olde sowdanesse / cursed krone
Hath with hir freendes / doon this cursed dede
ffor she hir self / wolde al the contree lede
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¶ Ne ther nas Surryen noon / þat was conuerted
That of the conseil / of the Sowdan woot
That he nas al tohewe / er he asterted
And Custaunce / han they take anon foot hoot
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And in a ship / al sterelees / god woot
They han hir set and bidde hir lerne Sayle
Out of Surrye / agaynward to Itaille
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