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'My lord & swete frend Raymondyn, Impossible is my lenger taryeng with you; Wherfore lyst, & herke, & putte in mynde that I shal saye. Wete it, Raymondyn, that certayn after your lyf naturel expired, no man shal not empocesse nor hold your land̛ so free in peas as ye now hold it, & your heyres & successours shal haue moche to doo / and wete it shal
be ouerthrawen & subdued, thrugh theire foly, from theire honour & from theire ryght enherytaunce / but doubte you not, For I shal help you duryng the cours of your lyf naturel / and putte not geffray, oure sone, fro your Court / he is your sone, [folio 187b] & he shal preue a noble & valyaunt man. Also we haue two yong children male, Raymond & theoderyk / of them I shal take good heede / how be it, aftir my departyng / that ryght soone shal be / ye shal neuer see me in no womans fourme. And I wyl & bequethe to theodoryk, yongest of aƚƚ our children, the lordshipes with al thappurtenaunces of Partenay / Vernon / Rochelle, & the port there / And Raymond shal be Erle of Forestz / and as touching geffray, he shal wel purueye for hym self.' Thenne drew she Raymondyn & hys Counseyƚƚ apart, & sayd to them in this wyse: 'As touching our sone, that men calle Horryble, that hath thre eyen / wete it for certayn, yf he be lefte alyue / neuer man dide, nor neuer shal doo, so grete dommage as he shaƚƚ. Wherfore I pray & also charge you that, anoone aftir my departyng, he be put to deth; For yf ye doo not soo / his lyf shall fuƚƚ dere be bought, & neuer ye dide so grete folye.' 'My swete loue,' sayd Raymondyn, 'there shal be no fawte of it / but, for goddis loue, haue pyte on yourself, & wyl abyde with me.' And she said to hym: 'My swete frend̛, yf it were possyble / soo wold I fayne doo / but it may not be. And wete it wel, that my departyng fro you is more gryeuous & doubtous a thousand tymes to me than to you / but it is the wyƚƚ & playsire of hym that can do & vndoo al thinges.' and, with these wordes, she embraced & kyssed hym fuƚƚ tenderly / sayeng: 'Farwel, myn owne lord & husbond̛; Adieu, myn herte, & al my joye; Farwel, my loue, & al myn wele / and yet as long as thou lyuest, I shal feed̛ myn eyen with the syght of the / but pyte I haue on the of this, that thou mayst neuer see me but
in horryble figure' / and therwith she lept vpon the windowe that was toward the feldes & gardyns ayenst Lusynen. /