[6-text p 431]
Al ȝoure plesance wold .I. folow feine
Bot ȝit .I. hope it be nouht ȝoure entent
þat smokles oute of ȝoure paleys .I. went
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¶ Ȝe couþe nouht do so dishonest a þinge
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þat þilke wombe in whiche ȝoure childern leye
Scholde be-for þe peple in my walkinge
Be seene al bare whe[r] for .I. ȝowe praye
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Late me nouht like a werme go be þe waie
Remembre ȝowe myn owen lorde so dere
.I. was ȝowre wif þouhe .I. vnworþe were
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¶ Wherefore in guerdon of myn maidenhede
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Whiche þat .I. brouht and not awaie .I. bere
As vowcheþ saue to ȝeue to my mede
Bot suche a smok as .I. was wonte to were.
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þat .I. þer-wiþ maie wrie þe wombe of here
þat was ȝoure wif. and here take .I. my leue
Of ȝowe myne owen lorde leste .I. ȝowe greue
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¶ The smokke quod he þat þou haste vpon þi bakke
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Lat it still and bere it forþe wiþ þe
Bot vnneþ þilke worde he spake [folio 125a]
Bott wente his weie for rewþe and pite
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Be-forne þe folke hir seluen strepeþ sche
And in hire smoke wiþ foote and hede al bare
To-ward hir fader house sche is fare
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¶ The folke hire folowen wepein in hir weie
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And fortune aie þei cursen as þei gone
Bot sche fro wepeinge kepped her eyȝen drie
Ne in þis time worde ne spak sche none
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Hire fader þat þis tiþinge herd a-none
Cursiþ þe daie and time þat nature
Schope him to be a lyues creature
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