[6-text p 417]
Ther nas discorde rancor ne heuinesse
In al þat londe þat sche couþe apese [folio 119b]
An wisely bringe hem al in hertes ese
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¶ Thouhe þat hir husbonde absent were anone
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If gentil men or oþere of here contre
Weere wroþe sche wolde bringe hem att one
So wise and ripe wordes had sche
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And Iuggement of so grete equite
That from heuen ysente was as men wende
The peple to plese and euery wronge to amende
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¶ Nouht longe time after þat þis Crisilde
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Was wedded sche a douhter haþ .I.-bore
Al had hire leuer haue borne a knaue childe
Gladd was þis markes and his folk þer fore
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For þouhe a mayden childe cam al before
Sche maie vnto a knaue childe atteigne
Belikned seþ sche is nouht bareine
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[Explicit] Secunda pars ffabule.
[PART III.]
There fel att befalleþ times mo [or ino]
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Whan þat þis childe hadde sowked bot a þrowe
This Markes in his hert langeþ so
To tempt his wif hire saddenesse for to knowe
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That he ne myht oute of his hert þrowe
This meruelous desire his wif to assaie
Nedeles god wote he þouht hire to affraie
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¶ He hadde assaide hire ynouhe before
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And fonde hire euere goode what nededeþe
Hire for to tempte and alweie more and more
Bot as for me .I. seie þat yuel it sitte
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Þouhe sume men it preise for a subtile witte
To assaie a wif whan þat it is no nede
And to putten hire in angwysse and in drede
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