Thow hauen of refut brighte sterre of day
Rewe on my child / that of thy gentillesse
Ruest on euery reweful in distresse
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¶ O litel child / allas what is thy gilt
That neuere wroghtest synne / as yet pardee
Why wil thyn harde fader / han thee spilt
O mercy deere Constable quod she
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As lat my litel child / dwelle heer with thee
And if thou darst nat sauen hym for blame
Yet kys hym ones / in his fadres name
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Ther with / she looked / bakward to the londe
And seyde / fare wel housbonde routhelees
And vp she rist / and walketh doun the stronde
Toward the Ship / hir folweth al the prees
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And euere she preyeth hire child / to holde his pees
And taketh hir leue / and with an hooly entente
She blissed hire / and in to ship she wente
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Vitailled was the ship / it is no drede [folio 63b]
Habundantly / for hire ful longe space
And othere necessaries / that sholde nede
She hadde ynogh / heryed be goddes grace
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ffor wynd and weder / almyghty god purchace
And brynge hire hoom / I kan no bettre seye
But in the see / she dryueth forth hir weye
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¶ Explicit secunda pars
¶ Sequitur pars tercia
Alla the kyng / comth hoom soone after this
Vn to his Castel / of the which I tolde
And asketh / where his wyf / and his child is
The Constable / gan aboute his herte colde
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