[6-text p 164]
I pray yow / al my labour to relesse
I may nat telle hir wo / vn til to morwe
I am so wery / for to speke of sorwe
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¶ But finally / whan þat the sooth is wist/
That Alla / giltlees was of hir wo
I trowe / an hundred tymes been they kist
And swich a blisse / is ther bitwix hem two
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That saue the ioye / þat lasteth eueremo
Ther is noon lyk / þat any creature
Hath seyn / or shal / whil þat the world may dure
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¶ Tho preyde she / hir housbond mekely
In relief / of hir longe pitous pyne
That he wolde praye / hir fader specially
That of his magestee / he wolde enclyne
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To vouche sauf / som day with hym to dyne
She preyde hym eek he sholde by no weye
Vn to hir fader / no word of hir seye
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¶ Som men wolde seyn / how þat the child Mauryce
Dooth this message / vn to this Emperour
But as I gesse / Alla was noght so nyce
To hym þat was / of so souereyn honour
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As he þat is / of cristen folk the flour
Sente any child / but it is bet to deme
He wente hym self and so it may wel seme
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[Thi]s Emperour / hath graunted gentilly [folio 127b]
To come to dyner / as he hym bisoghte
And wel rede I / he looked bisily
Vp on this child / and on his doghter thoghte
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Alla gooth to his In / and as hym oghte
Arrayed for this feste in euery wise
As ferforth / as his konnyng may suffise
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