She peyneth hire / to make good contenance
And forth / I lete hire saille / in this manere
And turne I wole / agayn to my matere
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¶ The mooder / of the Sowdan / welle of vices
Espied hath / hir sones pleyn entente
How he wol lete / hise olde sacrifices
And right anon / she for hir conseil sente
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And they been come / to knowe what she mente
And whan assembled was / this folk in feere
She sette hire doun / and seyde as ye shal heere
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¶ Lordes / she seyde / ye knowen euerichon [folio 57a]
How that my sone / in point is for to lete
The hooly lawes / of oure Alkaron
Yeuen by goddes message Makomete
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But oon auow / to grete god I heete
The lyf shal rather / out of my body sterte
Than Makometes lawe / out of myn herte
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What sholde vs tyden / of this newe lawe
But thraldom to our bodies and penance
And afterward / in helle to be drawe
ffor we reneyed / Mahoun oure creance
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But lordes / wol ye maken assurance
As I shal seyn / assentynge to my loore
And I shal make vs sauf for eueremoore
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¶ They sworen / and assenten euery man
To lyue with hire and dye / and by hire stonde
And euerich / in the beste wise he kan
To strengthen hire / shal alle hise frendes fonde
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And she hath / this emprise ytake on honde
Which ye shal heren / that I shal deuyse
And to hem alle / she spak right in this wyse
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