[6-text p 146]
Sche dryueþ forþ in to oure Occean
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Thurghout oure wilde see til atte last
vnder an holte þat men nempne can
Fer in Northumberland þe wawe hir cast
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And in þe sand þe schip styked so fast
That þennes wold it nouȝt in al a tyde
The wille of crist was þat sche schold abyde
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The Constabil of / þe castel doun is fare /
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To se þis wrak / and al þe schip he sought
And fond þis wery womman ful of care
And fand also þe tresour þat sche brought
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In hir langage mercy sche bisought
The lif out of her body for to wynne
hir to delyuer of woo þat sche was Inne /
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A maner latyn corupt was hir speche
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But algates / þer by sche was vnderstonde
The constabil whan him lust no lenger seche
This woful womman broughte he to londe /
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Sche kneleþ doun and thanketh goddes sonde
But what sche was sche wolde no man seye
For foul ne faire / þough sche scholde deye
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Sche was sche seyd so mased in þe see
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That sche forgat hir mynde by hire trowþe /
The constable had of hir so gret pitee
And eek his wyf þey wepeden for routhe
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Sche was so diligent wiþouten slouþe /
To serue and plese euer in þat place
That alle hir louen þat loken on hir face
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The Constable and dame hermegyld his wyf
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To telle ȝou playne in peynes boþe were [folio 78a]
But hermegyld loued constance as hir lyf
And Constance haþ so long herberwed þere
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