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Crisida quod he be god þat for vs deide
Thou ert my wif ne none oþer .I. haue
Ne neuer had so god my soule saue
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¶ This is þi douhter whiche þou hast supposed
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To be my wif þat toþer faiþe fully
Schal be myne heire as .I. haue aye purposed
Thou bare hem in þi bodi trewly.
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Att Boleyne haue .I. kepped hem priuely
Takeþ hem aȝeine for nowe maist þou nouȝt sey
Þat þou hast lorne none of þi children tweie
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¶ And folke þat oþere wise haue seide of me
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.I. warne hem wele þat .I. haue done þis dede
For no malece ne for no cruelte
Bot for to assaie in þe þi wommanhede
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And nouht for to sle my childern god for-bede
Bot for to kepe hem priuely and still
Til .I. þi purpos knewe and al þi will
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¶ Whan sche þis herde a swoune doune sche falleþ
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For pitous Ioye and after hire swoneinge
Sche boþe hir ȝonge childerne to hire calleþ
And in hir armes pytously wepeinge
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Embraseþ hem and tendurly kissinge
Ful lyk a mode wiþþe hir salte teres
Sche baþes boþ hire vesage and hire eres
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¶ O whiche a pitous syht it was to see
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Hir swoneynge and hire humble voice to here
Graunt mercye lord god .I. þonked ȝowe quod sche
þat ȝe haue sauede me my childern dere
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Nowe reche .I. neuere to be dede riht here
Seþþe .I. stonde in ȝoure loue and in ȝoure grace
No force of deþe ne whan my sprite passe
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