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¶ Bot att þe Boloigne it to his suster dere
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þat ilke time of Pauyke was Countesse
He scholde it take and schewe hir þis matiere
Be-secheinge hire to tone hir besinesse
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This childe to fostre in al gentillesse
And whos childe þat it was he bad hire hide
Frome euery whiht for ouhte þat maie be-tide
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¶ Þis sergeant goþe and haþe fulfilled þis þinge
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Bot nowe to þis ma[r]kes retorne wee
For nowe goþe he ful oft ymagyneinge
ȝif be his wyues chiere he myht see
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Or be hir worde perceyue þat sche [folio 121b]
Were chaunged bot he neuer couþe hir finde
Bot euere in one ylike sadde and kynde
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¶ As gladde as besy as humble in seruise
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And eke in loue as sche was wont to be
Was sche to him in euery manere wise
Ne of hir douhter nouht a worde spak sche
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Accident for none aduersite
Was seine in hire ne neuer hir douhter name
Ne nemend sche in ernest ne in game
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[Explicit] Tercia pars fabule.
[PART IV.]
IN þis . astate þere ben passed foure ȝere
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Er sche wiþ childe was Bot as god wolde
A knaue childe sche bare be þis waltere
Ful gracious and faire to be-holde
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And whan þat folke it to his fader tolde
Nouht onlyche he but al þe contre mury
Was for þis and god þei þonke and hery
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¶ Whan it was tuo ȝere olde and fro þe breste
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Departid of his norice on a daye
þis Markes cauht ȝit anoþere leste
