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The fruyt of þis matiere þat I telle
Whan tyme come men þought it for þe best
That Reuel stynte and men gon to here Rest
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¶ The tyme com þis olde Sowdanesse
Ordeyned haþ þis feeste of which I tolde
And to þe feste cristene folk hem dresse
In general boþe ȝonge and olde
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here may men feste and rialte biholde
And deyntees mo þan I can ȝou deuyse
But all to deere þei bought it ar þey ryse
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¶ O sodein woo þat euer art Successour [¶ Semper mundane leticie tristicia repentina succedit. Mundana ergo felicitas multis amaritudinibus est respersa. Extre|ma gaudij luctus occupat audi ergo salubre consilium in die bonorum ne immemor sis malorum.]
To worldly blysse spreynd is with bitternesse
The ende of þe ioye of oure worldly laboure
Wo occupieth þe fyn of oure gladnesse
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herk þis counseille for þi sikernesse
vpon þi glade day haue in thy mynde
The vnwar wo or harm þat comth behynde
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ffor schortly for to tellen at oo word
The Sowdan and þe cristene euerychone
Ben al to-hewe and stiked atte bord
But it were oonly dame Custance allone
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This olde Sowdanesse cursede crone
haþ with hire freendes doon þis cursede dede
ffor sche hir self wolde alle þe contre lede
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¶ Ne þer nas Surrian non þat was conuerted
That of þe counseil of þe Sowdan wot [folio 80a]
That he nas al to-hewe or he asterted
And circumstance han þei take anon foot hoot
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And in a Schippe al steereles god woot
Thay han hire sette and bidden hire lerne sayle
Out of Surrie agaynward to ytaile
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