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O noble wyues ful of ire prudence
Lat none humylite ȝoure tonge naile
Ne late no clerke haue cause or diligence [folio 128b]
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To write of ȝowe a storie of suche merveile
As Crisilde pacient and kinde
Lest chicheuache ȝowe swelowe in hire entreile
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Foloweþ here to and holdeþ no silence
Bot euer answer att þe countretaile
Beþ nouht bedaffed for ȝoure innocence
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Bot scharpely take on ȝowe þe gouernaile
Enprinteþ wele þis lesson in ȝoure mynde
For commune profite seþþe it maie availe
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þe Archewyues standeþ att þe fense
Seþ ȝe be stronge as is a grete Camaile
Ne suffreþ nouȝt þat men do ȝowe offence
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And sclender wives and febel as in a bataile
Beþ egre as is a tigre ȝonde in. Inde
Ay clappeþ as a melle .I. ȝowe counseile
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Ne drede hem nouht . ne do hem no reuerence
For þouhe þi husbonde armed be in maile
Þe arwes of þi crabbed eloquence
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Schal pers his breste and eke his aduentaile
In gelowsye .I. rede eke þou him binde
And þou make him couche as doþe a qwaile
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If þow bue faire þere folke bue in presence
schew þou þi visage and þine aparaile
If þo be foule be fre of þi dispence
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To gete þe frendes do aye þi trauayle
Be ay of chier as liht as lef on lynde
And late him care and wepe and wringe and wayle.
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Explicit commendacio
