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¶ Wepen boþe ȝonge and olde in al þat place
Whan þat þe kinge þis cursede letter sent
And Custance wiþ a dedly pale face
Þe ferþe daie to warde þe schippe sche wente [folio 75a]
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Bot Naþeles sche takeþ in goode entente
Þe will of criste and kneleinge att þe stronde
Sche seide lorde ay welcome be þi sonde
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¶ He þat me keppet fro þe fals blame
While .y. was in þe londe amonges ȝowe
He can me kepe from arme and eke frome schame
In salt see al-þouhe .I. see nouȝt howe
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As stronge as euer he was he is riht nowe
In him trust .I. and in his moder dere
Þat is to me my saile and eke my stere
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¶ Hire litel childe laie wepeinge in hir arme
And knelynge pitusly to him sche seide
Pees litel son .I. will do þe none harme
Wiþ þat þe kerchef of hir hede sche braide
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And ouer his litel yen sche it leide
And in hir arme sche lulleþ it ful fast
And in to heuen her yen vp sche cast
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¶ Moder quod sche and Maiden briht Marie
Soþe is þat þoruh wommannes egment
Man kinde was lorne and dampned aye to deye
ffor whiche þi childe was on a crois rente
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Þi blisfully yen sawhe all his tornement
Than is þere no comparison be-twene
Þi woo and any woo man may susteigne
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¶ Thowe sawhe þi sonne slayne to for þin eyȝene
And ȝit leueþ now my childe parfaie
Now lady to whome al woful cryȝen
Thow glorie of wommanhode þou faire maie
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