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¶ Oonly that poynt / his peple bare soore [[MS Arch. Seld. B. 14.]]
that flokmele on a day / they to him wente
and oon of hem / that wysest was of loore
or ellis that the lord / best wolde assente
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that he shulde telle him / what his peple mente
or ellis coude he wel / shewe suche matire
he to the Marques seide / as ye shulle hire
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¶ O noble Marques / youre humanite
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assurith vs / and yevith vs hardynesse
as offte as tyme / is of necessite
that we to yow mow telle / oure hevynesse
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acceptith now lord / of youre gentilnesse
that we with pitevous herte / to yow pleyne
and lete not youre eeris / my voys disdeyne
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¶ Al haue I nought to done / in this matire
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more than a-nother man hath / in this place
yit for as meche / as ye my lord / so dere
haue alwey shewed to me / favoure and grace
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I dar the better axe of yow / a space [MS Arch. Seld. B. 14 folio 67a]
of audience / to shewe oure requeste
and ye my lord / to do right as ye leste
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¶ For certes lord / so wel vs likith yow
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and al youre werke / and haue done that we] [[Arch. Seld. B. 14 extract ends]]
Ne coude nought vs self deuysen how [Corpus MS] [folio 130a]
We mighte lyue in more felicite
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Saue o þing lord if it ȝour wille be
That for to be a wedded man ȝou leste
þen were ȝoure peple in souereyn hertes reste [[No breaks in the Corpus MS between the stanzas.]]
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Boweþ ȝoure nekke vnder þat blisful ȝok
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Of souerainte and nought of seruise
Which þat men clepe spousaile or wedlok
And þenkeþ lord amonges ȝoure þoughtes wise
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