[6-text p 157]
Thou hauen of refut brighte sterre of day
Rewe on my child þat of þi gentilesse
Rewest on euery rewful in distresse
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¶ O litel child allas what is þi gilt
That neuer wroughtest synne as ȝit par de
Why wil þin harde fader haue þe spilt
O mercy deere Conestable quod sche
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As lat my litel child dwelle heer with þe
And if þou darst nought sauen him for blame
So kisse him ones in his fadres name
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¶ Ther with sche lokeþ bakward to þe lond
And sayde farewel housbonde routheles
And vp sche rist and walketh doun þe stronde
Toward þe schip hir folweþ alle þe prees
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And euer sche preieþ hir child to holde his pees
And takeþ hire leeue and with an holy entent
Sche blisseþ hire and in to schip sche wente [folio 86a]
vitailled was þe schip it is no drede
habundauntly for hire ful longe space
And oþer necessaries þat scholden neede
Sche hadde ynough heried be goddes grace
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ffor wynd and weder almighty god purchace
And brynge hir home I can no better sey
But in þe see sche dryueþ forþ hir wey
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[PART III.]
Alla þe king comþ hom sone after þis /
vnto his castelle of þe which I tolde
And axeþ wher his wyf and his child is
The Constable gan aboute his herte colde
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