[6-text p 429]
Retorneþ to ȝour fadres hous quod he
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No man may alwey haue prosperite
Wiþ euene herte I rede ȝou tendure
þe strok of fortune or of auenture
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¶ And sche aȝein answerde in pacience
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My lord seyde sche I wot & wiste alway
how þat bitwixe ȝoure magnificence
And my pouerte no wight can ne may
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maken comparison it/ is no nay
I helde me neuer digne in no manere
To be ȝour wijf ne ȝit ȝour chamberere
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And in þis hous þer ȝe me lady made
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¶ þe hihe god take I for my witnesse
And also wisly he my soule glade
I neuer heelde me lady ne maystresse
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But humble seruaunt to ȝour worþinesse
And euere schal whil þat my lijff may dure
Abouen euery worldly creature
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¶ That ȝe so longe of ȝoure benignite
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han holde me in honour and nobleye
Wher as I was nouȝt worþy for to be
þat þanke I god and ȝow whom I preye
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fforȝelde it ȝow þer nys no more to seye [folio 140a]
vnto my fader gladly wol I wende
And wiþ him dwelle vnto my lyues ende
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¶ Ther I was fostred of a child ful smal
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Til I be dede my lijf þer wil I lede
A wydewe clene in body herte and al
ffor siþþe I ȝaf to ȝow my maydenhede
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And am ȝour trewe wijf it is no drede
God schilde such a lordes wijf to take
Anoþer man to housbonde or to make
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