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But she noon answere / of hym myghte haue
He wente his wey / as hym no thyng ne roghte
But to Boloigne / he tendrely it broghte
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This Markys / wondred euere lenger the moore
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Vp on hir pacience / and if that he
Ne hadde soothly / knowen ther bifoore
That parfitly / hir children loued she
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He wolde haue wend / þat of som subtiltee
And of malice / or for crueel corage
That she hadde suffred this with sad visage
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But wel he knew / that next hym self certayn [folio 100a]
She loued hir children best in euery wyse
But new of wommen / wolde I axen fayn
If thise assayes / myghte nat suffise
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What koude a sturdy housbonde moore deuyse
To preeue hire wyfhod / or hir stedefastnesse
And he continuynge euere in sturdinesse
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But ther been folk/ of swich condicion
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That whan they haue / a certein purpos take
They kan nat stynte of hire entencion
But right as they were bounden to that stake
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They wol nat of that firste purpos slake
Right so this Markys / fulliche hath purposed
To tempte his wyf/ as he was first disposed
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He waiteth / if by word / or contenance
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That she to hym / was changed of corage
But neuere / koude he fynde variance
She was ay oon / in herte and in visage
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And ay the forther / þat she was in age
The moore trewe / if þat it were possible
She was to hym in loue / and moore penyble
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