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If þat þou vouche-saf what so be-tide
Þi douhter .I. wil take ar þat .I. wende [folio 118a]
As for my wif vnto hire liues ende
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¶ Thowe louest me .I. wote it wele certeine
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And arte my feiþeful liege Maifaie y-bore
And al þat likeþ me .I. dar wel seine
It likeþ þe and specialische þere-fore
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Tel me þat point as .I. haue seide be-fore
If þat þou wilte vnto þat purpose drawe
To take me as for þi son in lawe
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¶ The sodeyne caas þe man a-stoned so
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þat rede he wex a-bassched and al qwakynge
He stoode vnneþ he seide worde no moo
Bot only þus lorde quod he my willynge
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Is as ȝe will nouht a-ȝeines ȝoure lykeynge
.I. wil noþinge ȝe be my lorde so dere
Bot as ȝow luste gouerneþ þis matier
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¶ Ȝit wil .I. quod þis Markes softlye
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Þat in þi chamber .I. and þowe and sche
Haue a collacione and wost þu whie
For .I. wil ax if þat hire wil bee
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To be my wif and reule hire aftere me
And al þis schal be done in þi presence
.I. wil nouht speke owte of þine Audience
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¶ And in hire Chambre while þei were aboute
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Here treteis whiche þat ȝe schal after here
The peple cam in to þe hous wiþ-oute
And wondred hem in here honest manere
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And tentifly sche kepped hir fadere dere
Bot vtterly Crizilda wonder myht
For neuer eft sauhe sche suche a siht
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