[6-text p 146]
¶ Sche driueþ forþ in to oure Occean
þurghout oure wilde see til atte last
vnder an hold þat nempnen I ne can
ffor in Northumburland þe wawe hir cast [folio 81a]
And in þe sond hir schippe stiked so fast
That þennes wold it nought of alle a tyde
The wille of crist was þat sche scholde abyde
Line 511
¶ The Constable of þe castelle doun is fare
To seen þis wrak and alle þe schippe he sought
And fond þis wery womman ful of care
he fond also þe tresow þat sche brought
Line 515
In hire langage mercy sche bisought
The lyf out of hir body for to twynne
hire to deliuere of wo þat sche was Inne
Line 518
¶ A maner latyn corupt was hire speche
But algates þer by was sche vnderstonde
The constable whan him list no lengere seche
This woful womman brought he to þe londe
Line 522
Sche kneeleth doun and þankeþ goddes sonde
But what sche was sche wolde no man seye
ffor foul ne fair þough þat sche scholde deye
Line 525
¶ Sche seyde sche was so mased in þe see/
That sche foryat hire mynde by hire trouþe
The constable of hire haþ so gret pite
And eek his wyf þat þei weepen for rouþe
Line 529
Sche was so diligent wiþouten slouþe
To serue and plese euerich in þat place
That alle hire louen þat loken on hire face
Line 532
¶ The constable and dame hermengheld his wif
Were payens and þat contray euery where
But hermyngeld loued hir right as hire lijf
And Custance haþ so longe soiorned þere
Line 536
