with his typet ybounde aboute his heed
And sche cam aftir in a gyte of reed
And Symkyn hadde hosen of þe same / [folio 53a]
Ther durste no wight clepe hir but ma dame /
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was noon so hardy walkyng by þe weye
That with hir dorste rage or elles pleye
But if he wold be slayn of Symekyn·
wiþ panade or with knyf or boydekyn·
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For gelous folk ben perilous eueremo
Algate þey wolde here wyues wende so
And eek for sche was somdel smoterlich
Sche was as deyne as water in a dich
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As ful of hokir and of bissemare
hir thoughte ladyes oughten hir to spare /
what for hir kynreed and hir nortelrye
That sche had lerned in þe Nonnerye
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A douȝter hadden þey betwix hem two
Of .xx.ti ȝeer wiþouten eny mo
Sauyng a child that was of half ȝer age
In cradil lay and was a proper page /
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This wenche þikke and wel I-growen was
wiþ Camoys nose and eyȝen gray as glas /
And buttokkes brode and brestes round and hye
But right fair was hir heer I wol nat lye /
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The parsoun of þe toun for sche was feir
In purpos was to maken hir his heir /
Boþe of his catel / and his mesuage /
And straunge made it of hir mariage
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his purpos was to bystow hir hye
In to som worþy blood of ancetrye
For holy chirche good moot be despendid
On holy chirche blood þat is descendid
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Therfore he wolde his Ioly blood honoure /
Though þat he schulde holy chirche deuoure
GRet soken had þis meller oute of doute
with whete and malt of al þe lond aboute
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