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How þat oure dayes passe / in sondry wyse
ffor thogh we slepe / or wake / or rome / or ryde
Ay fleeth the tyme / it nyl no man abyde
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And thogh youre grene youthe / floure as yit [folio 93a]
In crepeth age alwey / as stille as stoon
And deeth manaceth / euery age and smyt
In ech estaat for ther escapeth noon
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And al so certein / as we knowe echoon
That we shul deye / as vncerteyn / we alle?
Been of that day / whan deeth shal on vs falle
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Accepteth thanne of vs / the trewe entente
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That neuere yet refuseden thyn heeste
And we wol lord / if that ye wole assente
Chese yow a wyf/ in short tyme atte leeste
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Born of the gentilleste / and of the meeste
Of al this land / so that it oghte seme
Honour to god and yow / as we kan deeme
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Deliuere vs / out of al this bisy drede
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And taak a wyf for hye goddes sake
ffor if it so bifelle / as god forbede
That thurgh youre deeth / youre lyne sholde slake
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And that a straunge Successour sholde take
Youre heritage / o wo were vs alyue
Wherfore / we pray you hastily to wyue
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¶ Hir meeke preyere / and hir pitous cheere
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Made the Markys herte / han pitee
Ye wol quod he / myn owene peple deere
To that I neuere erst thoughte / streyne me
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I me reioysed / of my liberte
That seelde tyme / is founde in mariage
Ther I was free / I moot been in seruage
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