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This is my wyf quod he / that standeth heere
Honureth hire / and loueth hire I preye
Who so me loueth / there is namoore to seye
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¶ And for þat no thyng of hir olde gere [¶ dehinc ne quid reliquiarum fortune veteris nouam inferat in domum / nudari eam iussit/]
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She sholde brynge in to his hous / he bad
That wommen / sholde dispoylen hir right there
Of which / thise ladys / were noght right glad
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To handle hir clothes / wher Inne she was clad
But nathelees / this mayde bright of hewe
ffro foot to heed / they clothed han al newe
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¶ Hir herys han they kembd / that laye vntressed [folio 179a]
fful rudely / and with hir fyngres smale
A coroune on hir heed / they han ydressed
And sette hire ful Nowches grete and smale
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Of hir array / what sholde I make a tale
Vnnethe the peple hir knew / for hir fairnesse
Whan she translated was / in swich richesse
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¶ This Markys / hath hire spoused with a ryng
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Broght for the same cause / and thanne hir sette
Vp on an hors snow whyt and wel amblyng
And to his palays / er he lenger lette
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With ioyful peple / þat hir ledde and mette
Convoied hire / and thus / the day they spende
In reuel / til the sonne gan descende
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¶ And shortly / forth this tale for to chace
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I seye / þat to this newe Markysesse
God hath / swich fauour sent hire of his grace
That it ne semed nat by liklynesse
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That she / was born and fed in rudenesse
As in a cote / or in an Oxes Stalle
But norissed / in an Emperours halle
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