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ffor which it semed thus / þat of hem two
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Ther nas but o wyl / for as walter leste
The same lust was hire plesance also
And god be thanked / al fil for the beste
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She shewed wel / for no worldly vnreste
A wyf as of hir self no thing ne sholde
Wille in effect but as hir housbonde wolde
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¶ The sclaundre of Walter / ofte and wyde spradde [¶ ceperit sensim de Waltero decolor fama cre|b[r]escere. ]
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That of a crueel herte / he wikkedly
ffor he a poure womman wedded hadde
Hath mordred / bothe his children priuely
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Swich murmure / was among hem comunly
No wonder is / for to the peples ere
Ther cam no word / but þat they mordred were
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ffor which / where as his peple ther bifore
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Hadde loued hym wel / the sclaundre of his diffame
Made hem / that they hym hated therfore
To been a mordrere is an hateful name
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But nathelees / for ernest ne for game
He of his crueel purpos nolde stente
To tempte his wyf/ was set al his entente
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¶ Whan that his doghter .xij. yeer was of age [folio 100b]
He to the court of Rome in subtil wyse
Enformed of his wyl / sente his message
Comaundynge hem / swiche bulles to deuyse
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As to his crueel purpos may suffyse
How þat the pope / as for his peples reste
Bad hym to wedde / another if hym leste
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I seye / he bad they sholde countrefete
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The popes bulles / makynge mencion
That he hath leue / his firste wyf to lete
As by the popes dispensacion
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