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how þat our dayes passe in sondry wyse
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For þough we slepe or wake or rome aboute
Ay fleth þe tyme it wil no man abyde.
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And though ȝour grene ȝouþe floure as ȝit
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In crepith age alway as stille as stoon
And deth manasith euery age and smyt
In ech estat for þer ascapith noon
And as certeyn as as we knowe euerychon
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That we schuln deye as vncerteyn we alle
Ben of þat day þat deþ schal on vs falle
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Acceptith thanne of vs þe trewe entent
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That neuer ȝit/ refusid ȝoure hest
And we wil lord if þat ȝe wil assent
Chese ȝow a wyf in schort tyme atte lest
Born of þe gentilest and þe heighest
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Of al þis lond so þat it oughte seme
honour to god . and ȝow as we can deme
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Deliuer vs out of al þis busy drede
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And tak a wyf fo hihe goddes sake /
For if it so bifel as god forbede
That þurgh ȝour deþ ȝour lygnage schuld aslake
And þat a straunge successour schuld take
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Ȝour heritage . O . wo were vs on lyue
wherfor we pray ȝow hastily to wyue
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Her meeke prayer . and her pitous chere
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Made þe marquys for to han pite
Ȝe wolde quod he . myn owne poeple deere [folio 118b]
To þat I neuer erst þought constreigne me.
I me reioysid of my liberte
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That selden tyme is founde in mariage
Ther I was fre I mot ben in seruage
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