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¶ Crisid of þis god wote ful innocente
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That for hir schapen al þis arraie was
To fecche water atte þe wel is went
And comeþ home as sone as euer sche maie
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For wele sche hadde herde saie þat ilke daie
Þat Markes scholde wedde and if sche miht
Sche wol feine haue seine sum of þat siht
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¶ Sche þout .I. wil wiþ oþer maidens stonde
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Þat bien my felaues in owre dore and see
The Markes and þarfore wil .I. fonde
To done att home as sone as it mai be
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The laboure þat longeþ vnto me
And þan .I. maie att leiser hire be-holde
If sche þis waie in-to þe castel holde
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¶ And as sche wolde ouer þe þresshewolde gone
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The Markes came and ganne hire for to call
And sche sett doune hire water pott a-none
Be-side þe þresshewold of þis ox. stall
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And doune vpon hir knesse sche gan to fall
Wiþ sadde Countenance kneleþ still
Til sche hadd herde what was þe lordes will
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¶ This þouhtful Marquys spake vnto þis maide
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Ful soburly and seide in þis manere
Where es ȝowre fader Crizild he seide
And sche wiþ reuerence and humble chiere
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Ansewerd lorde he is all redie here
And in sche goþe wiþ-oute langer lette
And to þe Markys hir fader sche fette
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¶ He be þe honde þan toke þis olde man
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And seide þus whan he had him a side
Ianicula .I. neyþere maie ne kan
lenger þe plesance of myne herte hide
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