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To tempte his wyf / yet ofter / if he may
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O nedelees / was she tempted in assay
But wedded men / ne knowe no mesure
Whan þat they fynde / a pacient creature
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¶ Wyf quod this Markys / ye han herd er this [¶ Et olim ait audisti populum meum egre nos|trum ferre connubium &cetera.]
My peple / sikly berth this mariage
And namely / sith my sone yborn is
Now is it worse / than euere in al oure age
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The murmur sleeth myn herte / and my corage
ffor to myne erys / comth the voys so smerte
That it wel neigh / destroyed hath myn herte
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¶ Now sey they thus / whan Walter is agon
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Thanne shal / the blood of Ianycle succede
And been oure lord / for oother haue we noon
Swiche wordes / seith my peple out of drede
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Wel oghte I / of swich murmur taken hede
ffor certeinly / I drede swich sentence
Though they nat pleyn / speke in myn audience
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¶ I wolde lyue in pees / if þat I myghte
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Wherfore / I am disposed outrely
As I his suster / serued by nyghte
Right so thenke I / to serue hym priuely
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This warne I yow / þat ye nat sodeynly
Out of your self / for no wo sholde outraye
Beth pacient and ther of I yow praye
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¶ I haue quod she seyd thus / and euere shal
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I wol no thyng ne nyl no thyng certeyn
But as yow list noght greueth me at al
Thogh that my doghter / and my sone be sleyn
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At youre comandement this is to seyn
I haue nat had no part of children tweyne
But first siknesse / and after wo and peyne
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