And ȝe schullen boþe anon vnto me swere
That neuer ȝe schullen my corowne dere
Ne make werre on me night ne day [folio 25a]
But be my freendes alle þat ȝe may
Line 1824
I ȝou forȝeue þis trespas euery dele
And þey him swore his axyng euery dele
And him of lordschip and of mercy prayde
And he hem graunted mercy and þus he sayde
Line 1828
TO speke of real lynage and riches
Though þat sche were a queen or a prynces
Ilk of ȝow boþe is worþy douteles
To wedde when tyme is but naþeles
Line 1832
I speke as for my suster Emelye
For whom ȝe haue þis stryf and Ielousye
ȝe woot ȝoure self sche may not wedde two
At oones þough ȝe faughten euer mo
Line 1836
That oon of ȝow or be him loth or leef
he may go pypen in an Iuy leef
This is to say sche may nought haue boþe
Al be ȝe neuer so Ielous ne so loþe
Line 1840
For-þy I put ȝou bothe in þis degre
That ilk of ȝou schal haue his destyne
As him is schape / and herken in what wyse
Lo here ȝour ende of þat I schal deuyse
Line 1844
My wil is þis. for playn conclusioun
wiþouten eny repplicacioun
If þat ȝou liketh tak it for þe best
That euery of ȝou schal go wher him lest
Line 1848
Frely wiþouten raunsoun or daungeer
And þis day fyfty wykes fer ne neer
Euerich of ȝou schal bryng an hundred knightes
Armed for lystes vp at alle rightes
Line 1852
Al redy to derayne hir by batayle
And þus byhote I ȝou wiþouten fayle
vpon my trouthe and as I am a knight
That wheþir of ȝow boþe þat haþ might
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