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Thou heuen of refute brighte sterre of day
Rewe on my child þat of þyn gentilnesse /
Rewest on euery synful in destresse
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O litel child allas what is þi gilt
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That neuer wroughtest synne as ȝet par de
why wil þyn harde fader han þe spilt
O. mercy deere and Constable seyde sche
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And let my litel child here dwelle with þe
And if þou darst not sauen him for blame /
So kys him oones in his fadres name
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Ther wiþ sche loked bakward to þe lond
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And seyde far wel housbond rewþeles
And vp sche rist and walkeþ doun þe stronde
Toward þe schip hir folweþ al þe prees
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And euer sche preyeþ hir child to hold his pees
And took hir leue and wiþ an holy entent
Sche blesseþ hire and to þe schip sche went
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Vytailled was þe schip it is no drede
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Abundauntly for hire ful longe space
And oþer necessaries þat schulde nede
Sche had ynowȝ heryed be cristeȝ grace
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For wynd and water almighty god purchace
And bryng hir hom I can no bettre say
But in þe see sche dryueþ forþ hir way
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[PART III.]
Alla þe kyng comþ hom soon after þis [folio 82b]
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vnto þe Castel of þe which I tolde
And askeþ wher his wyf and his child ys
The Constable gan aboute his herte colde
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