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¶ But naþeles I se ȝour trewe entente
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And truste vpon ȝour witte and haue don ay
Wherfore with al my fre wille I wil assente
To wedde me as sone as euer I may
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But þer as ȝe han profred me to day
To chese me a wijf I ȝou relesse
þat choys and pray ȝou of ȝoure profre cesse
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¶ ffor I wot þat children often ben
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vnlike here eldres hem byfore
Bounte comþ al of god not of þe stren
Of which þei beþ engendred and y-bore
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I truste in goddes bounte and þerfore
my mariage and myn astat and reste
I him bitake he may do as him leste
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¶ lat me alone in chesyng of my wijf
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But I ȝou pray and charge vpon ȝour lijf
That charge vpon my bak I wil endure
þat what wijf I take I þe assure
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To worschipe hire whil þat hire lijf may dure
In word in werk boþe heere and euerywhere
As sche an Emperoures doughter were
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¶ And forþermore þis schal ȝe swere þat ȝe
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Aȝein my choys schulle neuer grucche ne stryue
ffor siþþe I schal forgo my liberte
At ȝoure request as euer mote I þriue
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[there as myn herte is sett / there woll I wyve] [[Arch. Seld. B. 14.]]
And but ȝe wol assente in such manere
I pray ȝou speke nomore of þis matiere
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¶ Wiþ hertly wil þey sweren and assenten
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To al þis þing þer seyde no wight nay
Beseking him of grace or þat þei wenten
þat he wolde graunten hem a certein day
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