(3)
Bysily in my mynde I gan revolue
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The welthe onsure of everye creature,
How lightly that ffortune it can dissolue,
Whan that hir lyst that it no lenger [no lenger R, not long H.] dure;
And of the brotylnesse of hyre nature,
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My tremlyng hert so gretë [grete . . lyfe R, gret . . lyf H.] gastnesse hadde,
That my spiritis were of my lyfë [grete . . lyfe R, gret . . lyf H.] sadde.
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(4)
Me fel to mynde [mynde R, my mynde H.] how that, not long ago,
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ffortunës strok doun threst estaat royal
Into myscheef [The deposition of Richard II, A. D. 1399.] ; and I took heed also
Of many anothir lord that had a fall;
In mene [mene R, many H.] estaat eek sikernesse [sikirnesse R, siknnesse H.] at all
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Ne saw I noon; but I sey attë laste,
Wher sëwrte, for to abyde, [sewete for to abide R, tabyde H.] hir caste.
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Yn poore [In pouere R, Yn the poore H.] estaat sche pyght hir paviloun, [folio 1b] [This page is in a later hand than the rest of the MS.]
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To covere hire from the storm [To kever hir fro the stroke.] of descendyng;
For [that] sche kneew no lowere discencion,
Save oonly deth, fro which no wight lyvyng
Defendyn [Defende R.] hym may; and thus, in my musyng,
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I destitut was of [of R, for H.] joye and good hope,
And to myn esë no thyng koude I groope.
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For right as blyvë ran it in my thought,
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Though I be poore, yet som what leese I may;
Than deemed I that seurëte [seurtee R.] would nought
With me abyde, it is nought to hir pay,
Ther to soiurne as sche descendë may;
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And thus vnsikir of my smal lyfloode,
Thought leyd on me full [full R, om. H.] many an hevy loode.
