[6-text p 306]
Beth war / if by ensample / of youre lyuynge
Or by youre necligence / in chastisynge
That they perisse / for I dar wel seye
If þat they doon / ye shul it deere abeye
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Vnder a shepherde / softe and necligent
The wolf / hath many a sheepe and lamb to-rent
. . . . .
. . . . . [no gap in the MS.]
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This mayde / of which I wol this tale expresse
So kepte hir self hir neded no maistresse
ffor in hir lyuyng maydens myghten rede
As in a book/ euery good word or dede
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That longeth to a mayden vertuous
She was so prudent and so bounteuous
ffor which / the fame / out sprong on euery syde
Bothe of hir beautee and hir bountee wyde
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That thurgh that land / they preised hire echone
That loued vertu / saue Enuye allone
That sory is / of oother mennes wele [¶ Augustinus]
And glad is of his sorwe / and his vnheele
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The doctour / maketh this descripcioun
This mayde vp-on a day / wente in the toun
Toward a temple / with hire mooder deere
As is / of yonge maydens the manere
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¶ Now was ther thanne / a Iustice in that toun
That gouernour was / of that Regioun
And so bifel / this Iuge / hise eyen caste
Vp-on this mayde / auysynge hym ful faste
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As she cam forby / ther as this Iuge stood
Anon / his herte chaunged and his mood
So was he caught with beautee of this mayde [folio 138b]
And to hym self / ful pryuely he sayde
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This mayde / shal be myn / for any man
¶ Anon the feend / in-to his herte ran
And taughte hym sodeynly / þat he by slyghte
The mayden / to his purpos wynne myghte
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