[6-text p 154]
¶ Woo was þis kinge whan he þis lettre had seyne
Bot to no white he tolde þis sorwe sore
Bot of his owen he wrote ageyne
Welcome be þe sonde of criste for euer more
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To me þat am nowe lerend in his lore
Lord welcom be þi lust and þi plesance
Mi lust is put al in þine ordinance
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¶ Kepeþ þis childe al be it foule or faire
And eke my wif vnto myne home comynge
Criste whan him liste maie sende me an heire
More Agreable þan this to my likinge
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This letter he seleþ priuely wepeinge
Whiche to þe Messagier was take sone
And forþe he goþe þare is nomore to done
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¶ O Messagier fulfilde of dronkennesse
Stronge is þi breþe þi limmes faltern aye
And þou be-wreyest al sekurnesse
Thi mynde is lorne þu Iangelest as a Iaye
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Thi face is turned in a newe arraie
There drunkennesse reygneþ in any route
Þere is no counsel hidde wiþ outen doute
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¶ O domilda. I ne haue non englisshe digne
Vnto þi malice and þi tirannye
An þer-for to þe fende .I. þe resigne.
Lat him endite þi traitery [folio 74b]
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ffy mannysshe fy. o nay be god .I. lye
ffy fendlyche spirit for .I. dare wele telle
Thouhe þou here walke þi spirit is in helle
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¶ This Messagier comeþ fro þe kinge aȝeine
And att þe kinges moder courte he liþe
And sche was of þis Messagier ful faine
And plesed him in al þat euer sche myht
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