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That euery whight wiþe grete deuocione
Schold praie criste þat þis Mariage
Resceyue in gree and spede þis viage
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¶ The daie is comen of hire departeinge
.I. say þat woful daie fatal is come
That þat þere maie be no longer tariynge
Bot forþwarde þei hem dresse alle and somme
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Constance þat wiþ sorwe is al ouer-come
fful pale a-rist and drisseþ hire to wend
ffor wele sche seeþe þere is none oþere ende
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¶ Allas what wonder is it þouhe sche wepete
That schall be sent to so strange nacione
ffro frendes þat so tendurly hir keppete
And to be boundon vnder subiectione
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Of one sehe knoweþ nouht his condicion
Husbondes bene al good and hane bu ȝore
þat knewen wives .I. dar sei ȝow no more
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ffader sche seide . þi wreched childe Constance
þi ȝonge douhter fostred vp so soft
And ȝe my moder my souereigne plesance
Ouer al þinge oute take criste on loft
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Constance ȝowre childe hir recommandeþ oft
Vn to ȝoure grace for .I. schal to Surrye
Ne schal .I. neuer seen ȝow more wiþ eye
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¶ Alas vn to þe Barbarie Nacion
.I. most anone seþ it is ȝoure wille
Bot crist þat starf for oure redempcione [folio 68b]
So ȝeue me grace his hestes to fulfille
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.I. wriched womman no force þou .I. spille
Wemmen arne born to þraldom and penance
And to bue vnder mannes gouernance
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