[6-text p 407]
How þat oure dayes passe / in sondry wyse
ffor thogh we slepe / or wake / or renne / or ryde
Ay fleeth the tyme / it nel no man abyde
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¶ And thogh youre grene youthe / floure as yit
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In crepeth age alwey / as stille as stoon
And deth / manaceth euery age and smyt
In ech estat for ther escapeth noon
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And also certeyn / as we knowe echon
That we shal dye / as vncerteyn we alle
Been of that day / whan deth shal on vs falle
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¶ Accepteth thanne of vs / the trewe entente
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That neuere yet refuseden thyn heste
And we wol lord / if þat ye wol assente
Chese yow a wyf/ in short tyme at the leeste
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Born of the gentileste / and of the meeste
Of al this lond / so þat it oghte seme
Honour / to god and yow / as we kan deme
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¶ Delyuere vs / out of al this bisy drede
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And tak a wyf / for heighe goddes sake
ffor if so bifelle / as god forbede
That thurgh youre deeth / youre ligne sholde slake
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And that a straunge Successour / sholde take
Youre heritage / o. wo were vs alyue
Wher fore / we pray yow / hastily to wyue
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[Hir [Rats.] [folio 175b] meke prayere / and hir pitous cheere
Made the Markys herte / han pitee
Ye wol quod he / myn owene peple deere
To that I neuere erst thoghte / streyne me
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I me reioysed / of my libertee
That selde tyme / is founde in mariage
Ther I was free / I moot ben in seruage
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