with good disport, by cause I schuld not morne. [UH, mone T.]
That day I bode [UH, abode T.] still in þair cumpany,
which wasse to me a gracyous soiourne.
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The boordës wér spred in ryght [UH, full T.] lytell space;
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The ladyse sat, eche as hem semyd best.
were [were H, wher U, Ther were T.] non þat dide seruyse [UT, þat serued H.] with-In þat place,
But chosen men, ryght of þe goodlyest;
And sum þer were, paraunter [parauenture H.] most [more T, om. H.] freschest,
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That saw þair Iuges syttyng full demure,
without semblant, oþer [UH, eyþer T.] to most or lest,
Not with standyng [UH, But not . . T.] þai had hem vndur cure.
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Among all oder, on I gan aspye,
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which in gret thought full often cam and went,
As on [UT, man H.] þat had bene rauysched vttirlye,
In his langage not gretly dylygent;
Hys countynaunce he kept with gret turement,
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But his desir far passed his resoun,
ffor euer his yie [ey T, yee H.] went after his entent
ffull many a tyme, when hit wasse no sesoun.
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To make gud chere, ryght [UH, full T.] sore hym selfe he payned. [he peyned H, payned U, he feynyd T.] [folio 119b]
And outwardly [UT, outeward H.] he feyned gret gladnesse;
To syng also, by force he wasse constrayned,
ffor no plesaunce, but [UH, for T.] verrey schamfastnesse;
ffor the compleynt of his most hevynesse
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Cam to his voyce alway with-out request,
lyke as þe sown of byrdës doth expresse, [UH, doutles T.]
when þai syng lowd, in fryth or in [in UT, om. H.] forést.
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