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¶ O tendre / o deere / o yonge children myne
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Youre woful moder / wende stedefastly
That cruel houndes / or som foul vermyne
Hadde eten yow / but god of his mercy
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And youre benygne fader / tendrely
Hath doon yow kept and in that same stounde
Al sodeynly / she swapte adoun to grounde
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¶ And in hir swogh / so sadly holdeth she [folio 189b]
Hir children two / whan she gan hem tembrace
That with greet sleghte / and greet difficultee
The children from hir arm / they gonne arace
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O. many a teer / o many a pitous face
Doun ran / of hem þat stoden hir bisyde
Vnnethe aboute hire / myghte they abyde
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¶ Walter hir gladeth / and hir sorwe slaketh
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She riseth vp abaysed / from hir traunce
And euery wight hir ioye and feste maketh
Til she / hath caught agayn hir contenance
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Walter hir dooth / so feithfully plesance
That it was deyntee / for to seen the cheere
Bitwix hem two / now they ben met yfeere
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¶ Thise ladies / whan þat they / hir tyme say
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Han taken hire / and in to chambre goon
And strepen hire / out of hir rude aray
And in a clooth of gold / þat brighte shoon
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With a coroune / of many a riche stoon
Vp on hir hed / they in to halle hir broghte
And ther she was / honured as hir oghte
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¶ Thus hath this pitous day / a blisful ende
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ffor euery man and womman / dooth his myght
This day / in murthe and reuel to dispende
Til on the welkne / shoon the sterres lyght
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