Alas! hyt shuldë so betyde,
Many one are lost for here pryde.
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Shal grace come neuer [neuer come.] yn þat land
Þere men haue swychë gyse yn hand;
God and grace are wyþ hem wroth,
Þat haue, for pryde, dysgysed here cloth.
Noþeles [O, Noþele H.] euery [eury.] man may,
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Aftyr hys astate, make hym gay;
But when he þasseþ ouer mesure,
Þerof cumþ mysauenture.
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Gentyl men ofte, for swyche desert
Fal [Falle.] at þe laste yn grete pouert.
A weddyd wyfe may atyre here
Þat here husbunde loue noun but here;
For hys loue she may hyt do,
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But for none ouþer mannys so.
Ȝyt swyche y rede, þat þey so fare
Þat here pryde make hem nat bare.
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Gretly [Gretlych.] þey synne yn þer [here.] queyntyse
Þat nouelrye al day areyse,
For to be preysed and of grete syght,
Al day dysgyse hem at here myght;
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Forsoþe hyt semeþ weyl to be
Al here lyfe yn vanyte.
But wlde [Harl. omits 'wlde.'] þey þenke þat make swyche strut,
yn what robe, yn erþe, þey shul [þey shul yn erþe.] be put,
Þey shulde nat make hyt so a-mys,
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Ȝyf þey þoght oft of [on.] þys.
Y shal ȝou telle a lytyl wyght [[wiht, space]] [A tale]
How hyt befyl onys of a knyȝt.
[The Tale of the Knight and Monk who lovd new Fashions.]
Þer was a knyȝt þat loued nouelrye,
As many one haunte now þat folye;
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