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¶ Bot for to speke of vertuouse beute
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Þan was sche one of þe fairest vnder sonne
Ful pouerly fosterd was sche
No lycourous luste was in hire hert yronne
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Wele ofter of þe wel þan of þe tonne
Sche dranke for sche wolde vertuse plese
Sche knewe wele laboure bot none ydel ese
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¶ Bot þouhe þis maide tender were of age
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Ȝite in þe breste of hire virginite
þere was y-closed ripe and scharpe corage
And in a grete reuerence and charite
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Hire olde pouer fader fosterd sche
A fewe schepe spynynge on þe felde sche kepped [folio 117a]
Sche nolde nouȝt be ydel til þat sche slepped
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¶ And whan sche cam homwarde sche wald bringe
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Wortes or oþer herbes times oft
The whiche sche schredde and seþe for here leueinge
And maade hire bedde ful harde and noþinge soft
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And ay sche kepped her faders life on loft
Wiþe euerye obeissance and dilegence
Þat childe myht do to fadere reuerence
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¶ Vpon Crizilda þe pouer creature
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Ful oft siþe þe Markes sett is eye
As he on hunteinge rode perauenture
And whan it fell þat he myht hire aspye
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He nouht wiþ wanton lokeinge of folye
His eyen kast on hire bot in sad wise
Vpon hire chere he wolde him of avise
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¶ Commendinge in his ert here wommanhede
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And eke hir vertue passinge any whihte
Of so ȝonge age as wele in chere as in dede
For þouhe þe peple haue no grete insiht
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