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¶ But at Boloigne / he to his suster deere [folio 182a]
That thilke tyme / of Pauyk was Countesse
He sholde it take / and shewe hire this matere
Bisekynge hire / to doon hir bisynesse
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This child to fostre / in alle gentilesse
And whos child þat it was / he bad hire hyde
ffrom euery wight for aught þat may bityde
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¶ The Sergeant goth / and hath fulfild this thyng
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But to this Markys / now retourne we
ffor now goth he / ful faste ymagynyng
If by his wyues cheere / he myghte se
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Or by hir word aparceyue / that she
Were chaunged / but he neuere hir koude fynde
But euere in oon / ylike sad and kynde
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¶ As glad / as humble / as busy in seruyse [¶ Par alacritas atque sedalitas solitum obsequium/ idem amor nulla filie mencio.]
And eek in loue / as she was wont to be
Was she to hym / in euery maner wise
Ne of hir doghter / noght a word spak she
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Noon accident for noon aduersitee
Was seyn in hire / ne neuere hir doghter name
Ne nempned she / in ernest ne in game
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¶ Explicit tercia pars.
¶ Incipit pars quarta.
IN this estat ther passed ben .4. yeer [¶ transiuerant hoc/ in statu anni .4. dum ecce grauida &cetera.]
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Er she with childe was / but as god wolde
A knaue child she bar / by this Walter
fful gracious / and fair for to biholde
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And whan þat folk / it to his fader tolde
Nat oonly he / but al his contre merye
Was for this child / and god they thanke and herye
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¶ Whan it was two yeer old / and fro the brest [folio 182b]
Departed of his Norice / on a day
This Markys / caughte yet another lest
