[6-text p 435]
Ay ful of Clappinge dere ynowhe a Iane
Ȝoure dome as fals ȝoure inconstance wele preueþ
A for grete fole is he þat on ȝowe leueþ
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¶ Thus seiden sadde folke in þat Cite
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Whan þat þe peple gased vp and doune
For þei were glad riht for þe nouelte
To haue a newe lady of here toune
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No more of þis now make .I. mencione
Bot to Crisilde anone .I. wil me dresse
And tel hir Constance and hir besinesse
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¶ Ful besy was crisilde in euery þinge
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Þat to þe feste was apertenent
Riht nouht was sche abassched of hire cloþinge
þouhe it were rode and eke somdele to-rente
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Bot wiþ glad chiere to þe ȝate is wente
Wyþ oþere folke to grete þe marquysesse
And after þat doþ forþe hire besinesse
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¶ Wiþ so gladde chiere his gestes sche resceyueþ
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And conyngly eueryche in his degre
Þat defaute no man apperceyueþ
Bot aie þei wondren what sche myht be [folio 126b]
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That in so pouer araye was for to se
And couþe suche honoure and reuerence
And worþely þe preised hire prudence
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¶ In al þis men while sche ne stinte
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This maiden and eke hir broþer to commende
Wiþ al hir hert wiþ ful benynge entente
So wele þat no man couþe hir prise amende
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Bot att þe laste whan þes lordes wende
To sitten doune att mete he gan to call
Crisilde as sche was busy in his hall
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