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¶ But nathelees / I se youre trewe entente
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And truste vp on youre wit and haue doon ay
Wher fore / of my free wyl / I wol assente
To wedde me / as soone as euere I may
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But ther as ye / han profred me to day
To chese me a wyf/ I yow relesse
That choys / and pray yow of that profre cesse
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¶ ffor god it woot þat children ofte ben
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Vnlyk/ hir worthy eldres hem bifore
Bountee comth al of god / nat of the stren
Of which / they been engendred and ybore
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I triste in goddes bountee / and ther fore
My mariage / and myn estat and reste
I hym bitake / he may doon as hym leste
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¶ Lat me allone / in chesyng of my wyf
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That charge vp on my bak I wol endure
But I pray yow / and charge vp on youre lyf
That what wyf þat I take / ye me assure
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To worshipe hire / whil þat hir lyf may dure
In word and werk/ bothe here and euerywhere
As she / an Emperours doghter were
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¶ And ferther moore / this shal ye swere / þat ye
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Agayn my choys / shal neither grucche ne stryue
ffor sith / I shal forgoon my libertee
At your requeste / as euere mote I thryue
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Ther as myn herte is set/ ther wol I wyue
And but ye wol assente / in swich manere
I pray yow / speketh namoore of this matere
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¶ With hertly wyl / they sworen and assenten [folio 176a]
To al this thyng ther seyde no wight nay
Bisekynge hym of grace / ēr þat they wenten
That he wolde / graunten hem a certein day
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