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Of his spowsel as sone as euere he maie
For ȝit alweie þe peple sum what drede
Lest þat þis Markes no wife wold wedde [folio 116b]
¶ He graunted hem a dai suche as him list
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On whiche he wil be wedded sekurly.
And seide He dide al þis att þeire request
An þei wiþe humble entent ful buxhumly.
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Kneleynge vpon here knese ful reuerently
Him þonkynge all and þus þei haue an ende
Of here entente and home aȝeine þei wende
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¶ And here-vpon he to his officiers
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Commaundeþ for þe feste to purveie
And to his priue knyhtes and swyers
Suche charge ȝaf as him list on hem leye
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And þei to his commandement obeie
And yche of hem doþ his diligence
To do vn-to þe fest reuerence.
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[PART II.]
Prima pars fabule
Nowht fer fro þe paleis honurable
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Where as þe Markes schope his mariage
The[re] stode a þrope of þe Cite delitable
In whiche þat pouer folke of þat vilage
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Hadden her bestes and her herbergage
And of here laboure toke here sustinance
After þe erþe ȝaf hem abundance
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¶ Amonge þise pouer folke þer dwelled a man
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Whiche was holde pouerest of hem al
Bot þe hihe god sum time sende can
His grace in-to a lite oxe stal
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Ianicula Men of þat þorpe him cal
A douhter had he faire ynouhe to siht
An Crisilda þis ȝonge maiden hiht
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