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This is my wife quod he þat stondeþ hiere
Honoureþ hir and loueþ hire eke .I. preie
Who so me loueþe þare is no more to seie
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¶ And for þat noþinge of hire olde gere
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Sche scholde bringe in to his house he badde
Þat wemmen scholde dispoylen [hire] riht þere
Of whiche þe ladies weren noþinge gladde
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To handel hire cloþes where in sche was cladde
Bot naþeles þis maiden briht of hewe
Fro þe fote to þe hede þei cloþed hane al newe
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¶ Her here ha þei kembed þat laie vntressed
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Thei tirede hir hede þat longe rudely laie dressed
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Ful roodely. and wiþ hire fingers smale
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Of hire araye what scholde .I. maake a tale
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Sche is nowe faire of hewe þat arst was pale
Vnneþ þe peple hire knewe for hire fairenesse
Whan sche transemute was in suche rechesse
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¶ This Markes haþ her wed wiþ a ringe
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Brouht for þe same cause and hire sette
Vpon an hors snowe white and wele Amblynge
And to þe paleis ar he langer lette
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Wiþ Ioyful peple þat hire ladde and mette
Conueyde hire and þus þe daie þei spende [folio 119a]
In reuele til þe sonne gan descende
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¶ And schortly forþe þis tale for to chace
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.I. seie þat to þis new Marquysesse
God haþe suche fauore sent hire of his grace
Þat it ne semed nouht be liknesse
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Þat sche was borne and fedde in rudesse
As in a Cote or in an ox stall
Bot norissched in an Emperours hall
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