[6-text p 143]
The fruyt of þis matier is þat I telle
whan tyme com men þought it for þe best
That reuel stynt and men goon to her rest
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The tyme com þe olde Sowdonesse
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Ordeyned haþ þis fest of which I told
And to þe feste cristen folk hem dresse
. . . . . [no gap in the MS.]
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Ther men may fest and realte byholde
And deyntes mo / þan I can of deuyse
But al to deere þey bought it ar þey ryse [folio 76b]
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O sodeyn wo þat euer art successour
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¶ To worldly blis spreynd is wiþ bitternesse /
The ende of oure ioye of oure worldly labour
wo occupieth þe fyn of oure gladnesse
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herken þis counseil for thyn sikernesse
vpon þyn glade dayes haue in þi mynde
The vnwar woo þat cometh ay bihynde
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For schortly for to tellen at o word
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The Sawdan and þe cristen euerichone
Ben al to-hewe and stiked atte bord
But it were Dame Constaunce allone
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This olde Sowdones þis cursed crone
haþ wiþ hir frendes doon þis cursed dede
For sche hir self wold al þe contre lede
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Ne þer was surrien noon / þat was conuerted
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That of þe counseil of þe Sawdon woot
That he nas alto-hewe or he asterted
And Constaunce haue þey take anon foot-hoot
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And in a schippe / steleres god it woot
They haue hir set. and bad hir lerne to sayle
Out of Surry aȝeinward to ytaile
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