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But she noon answere / of hym myghte haue
He wente his wey / as hym no thyng roghte
But to Boloigne / he tendrely it broghte
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[T [Rats.] [folio 183b] ]his Markys wondreth / euer lenger the moore
Vp on hir pacience / and if þat he
Ne hadde soothly / knowen ther bifoore
That parfitly / hir children loued she
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He wolde haue wend / þat of som subtiltee
And of malice / or of cruel corage
That she hadde suffred this / with sad visage
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¶ But wel he knew / þat next hym self certayn
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She loued hir children best in euery wise
But now of wommen / wolde I asken fayn
If thise assayes / myghte nat suffise
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What koude a sturdy housbond / moore deuyse
To proue hir wifhod / and hir stedfastnesse
And he contynuynge / euere in sturdynesse
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¶ But ther ben folk / of swich condicion
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That whan they haue / a certeyn purpos take
They kan nat stynte / of hir entencion
But right as they were bounden to that stake
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They wol nat of that firste purpos slake
Right so this Markys / fulliche hath purposed
To tempte his wyf / as he was first disposed
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¶ He wayteth / if by word / or contenance
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That she to hym / was chaunged of corage
But neuere / koude he fynde variance
She was ay oon / in herte and in visage
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And ay the ferther / þat she was of age
The moore trewe / if þat were possible
She was to hym in loue / and moore penyble
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