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¶ Bot naþeles .I. see ȝoure trewe entente
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And truste vpon ȝoure witte and haue done aye
Where-for wiþ all my fre wil .I. wil assente
To wedde me als sone as eu[er]e .I. maie
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Bot þere as ȝe haue proferd me to daie
To chese me a wif .I. ȝowe relese
Þat choise and pray ȝoue of ȝoure profure cese
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¶ For .I. wote þat childern often bien
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Vnlyke here elders hem before
Bounte comeþ al of god nouht of þe strene
Of whiche þei bue engenderd and y-bore
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.I. truste in godese bounte and þere fore
Myn mariage and myne astate and reste
.I. him be-take he maie do as him leste
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¶ Lete me alone in cheseinge of my wif
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Þat charge vpon my bak .I. wil endure
Bot .I. ȝowe preie and charge vpon ȝowre lif
Þat what wife .I. take ȝe me assure
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To worschip hire while þat hire life maie endure
In worde and werke boþe here and euerywhere
As sche an Emperoure douhter weere
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¶ And ferþer-more þis schal ȝe swere þat ȝe
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Aȝeine my choice schal neuer gruche ne strive
ffor seþ .I. schal for-go my liberte
Att ȝoure request as euer mot .I. þryve
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þer as my hert is set þer wil .I. wiue [[This line at the side, in a different 15th-cent. hand.]]
And bot ȝe wil assente in suche manere
.I. praie ȝowe spekeþ no more of þis matiere
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¶ Wiþ hertly wil þei swore and assenten
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To al þis þinge þer seide no whiht naye
Besekeinge him of grace or þat þei wenten
þat he wold graunten hem a cerceigne daie
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