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¶ In hire is heigh beaute wiþoute pride [Europia est tercia pars mundi.]
youþe wiþoute greenehod of folye
To alle hire werkes vertu is hire guyde
humblesse haþ slayn in hire al tyrannye
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Sche is a merour of alle curtesye
hire herte is verray chambre of holynesse
hire hand ministre of fredam for almesse
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¶ And al þis voys is soþ as god is trewe
But now to purpos lat vs turne again
Thise marchantz han doon fraught here schippes newe
And whan þay haue þis blisful mayde sain
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hom to Surrey beþ þei went agayn
And don here needes as þey han don yore
And lyuen in wele I can seye yow nomore
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Now fil it þat þis marchantz stoden in grace
Of him þat was þe Sowdon of Surrie
ffor whan þei came from eny strange place
he wolde of his benigne curtesie/
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Make hem good chere and besily aspie
Tythynges of sundy Remes for to leere
The wondres þat þey mighte seen or heere
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Amonges oþer þinges specially
Thise marchantz han him told of Dame Custance [folio 76b]
So gret noblesse in ernest ceriously
That þis Sowdan haþ caught so gret/ plesance
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To han hire figure in his remembrance
And alle his lust and alle his besy cure
Was for to loue hire whil his lijf may dure
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Parauenture in þilke large book
Which þat þei cleped þe heuen write was
Wiþ sterres whan þat he his birþe took
That he for loue schulde han his deþ allas
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