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Wo was þis kyng whan he þis letter had sein
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But to no wight he told his sorwes sore
But of his owen hand he wrot agayn.
welcome þe sond of crist for eueremore
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To me þat am now lerned in his lore
lord welcome be þy lust and þy pleasaunce [folio 81a]
My lust I putte al in þyn ordinaunce
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Kepeth þis child al be it foul or fair
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And eek my wyf vnto myn hom comyng
Crist whan him lust may sende me an hair
More agreable þan þis to my likyng
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The lettre he seleth pryuyly wepyng
which to þe messager he took ful sone
And forþ he goth þer nys no more to done
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O messager fulfild of dronkenesse
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Strong is þy breþ þy lymes faltren ay
And þou bywreyest alle sykernesse
Thy mynde is lorn þou ianglest as a Iay
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Thy face is torned al in a newe array
Ther drunkenesse regneþ in eny route
Ther is no counseil hid wiþouten doute
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O Domegyld I haue non englisch digne
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vnto þy malice and þy tyrannye
And þerfor to þe feend I þe resigne
let him endyten of þi treccherie
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Fy mannyssch fy .o. nay by god I lye
Fy feendly spirit for I dar wel telle
Though þou here walke þy spirit is in helle
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This messanger comþ fro þe kyng agayn
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And at þe kinges modres court he light
And sche was of þis messenger ful fayn
And pleseþ him in al þat euer sche might
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