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¶ Oonly that point his peple bar so soore
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That flokmele on a day / they to hym wente [cateruatim.]
And oon of hem / þat wisest was of loore
Or ellis / þat the lord / best wolde assente
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That he sholde telle hym / what his peple mente
Or ellis koude he / shewe wel swich matere
He to the Markys seyde / as ye shal heere
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¶ O noble Markys / youre humanitee [// tua inquid humanitas optime Marchio]
Assureth vs / and yeueth vs hardynesse
As ofte / as tyme is of necessitee
That we to yow / mowe telle oure heuynesse
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Accepteth lord / now of youre gentillesse
That we with pitous herte / vn to yow pleyne
And lat youre erys / noght my voys disdeyne
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¶ Al haue I noght to doone / in this matere
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Moore than another man / hath in this place
Yet for as muche / as ye my lord so deere
Han alwey shewed me / fauour and grace
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I dar the bettre / aske of yow a space
Of audience / to shewen oure requeste
And ye my lord / to doon right as yow leste
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¶ ffor certes lord so wel vs liketh yow [folio 175a]
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And al youre werk and euere han doon / þat we
Ne kouden nat vs self / deuysen how
We myghte lyuen / in moore felicitee
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Saue o thyng lord / if it youre wille be
That for to been a wedded man / yow leste
Thanne were youre peple / in souereyn hertes reste
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¶ Boweth youre nekke / vnder that blisful yok
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Of souereyntee / noght of seruyse
Which that men clepe / spousaille / or wedlok
And thenketh lord / among youre thoghtes wise
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