[6-text p 157]
Þou haven of refute briht sterre of daie
Rew on my childe þat of þi gentillesse
Rewest on euery rewful in destrisse
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¶ O litel childe alas what is þi gilte
Þat neuer wrouhtest sinne as ȝit parde
Whi wil þi hard fader haue þe spilte
O merci dere constable quod sche
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As lat my litel childe dwel here wiþ þe
And if þou darst nouht saue him frome blame
So kesse him ones in his faders name
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¶ Ther-wiþ sche loked bakward to þe londe
And seide fare wel husbonde rewþeles
And vp sche riseþ and walkeþ doune þe stronde
To warde þe schippe hir foloweþ al þe prees [folio 75b]
And euer sche praieþ her childe to holde his pees
And takeþ hire leue and wiþ an holy entent
Sche blisseþ hir and in to schippe sche went
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¶ Vitailled was þe schip it is no drede
Abundantly for hire ful longe space
And oþere necessaries þat schold nede
Sche had .I.-nowhe heried be goddes grace
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. . . . . [no gap in the MS.]
And bringe hire home .I. can no better saie
Bot in þe see sche driueþ forþ hire waie
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[PART III.]
¶ Alla þe kinge comeþ home sone after þis
Vnto his Castel of þe whiche .I. tolde
And axeþ where his wif and his childe is
The Constable gan aboute his hert colde
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