[6-text p 411]
In vertue he considered ful riht
Her bounde and disposed þat he wolde
Wedde hire onely if euere he wed scholde
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¶ þe daie of weddinge cam bot no whihte can
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Tel what womman þat it scholde be
For whiche merveile wondereþ mony man
And seiden whan þei were in priuete
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Wil nouht oure lorde leue his vanite
Wil he nouht wedde alas alas þe while
Whi wil he þus him self and vs be-gile
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¶ Bot naþeles þis Markes haþe done make
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Of gemmes sette in golde. and in asure
Broches and ringes for crisild sake
And of hir cloþinge toke he þe mesure
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Of a maiden lyke to hire stature
And eke of oþer ornamentes al
þat vnto suche a wedynge scholde fal
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¶ The time of hundren of þe same daie
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Aprocheþ þat þis weddynge schold be
And al þe paleis putt was in araie
Boþe hal and chambre iche in his degre
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Houses of officez stoffed wiþ plente
Ther mai þou see of daynteuos vitaile [folio 117b]
That maie be founde as fer as last ytaile
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¶ This Roial Markes richeli araide
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Lordes and ladies in his compaigne
The whiche vnto þe feste were praide
And of his retenu þe bachellarie
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Wiþ mony a soune of sundre Melodie
Vnto þe vilage of whiche .I. tolde
In þis arraie þe riht weie haþe holde
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