[6-text p 419]
Shewe now youre pacience / in youre wirkyng
That ye me highte / and swore in yone village
That day / þat maked was oure mariage
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¶ Whan she hadde herd al this / she noght ameued
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Neither in word / or cheere / or contenance [Nec verbo mota / nec vultu.]
ffor as it semed / she was nat agreued
She seyde lord / al lith in youre plesance
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My child and I / with hertly obeisance
Been youres al / and ye mowe saue or spille
Youre owene thyng werketh after youre wille
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¶ Ther may no thyng god so my soule saue
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Liken to yow / þat may displesen me
Ne I ne desire / no thyng for to haue
Ne drede for to lese / saue oonly thee / [vel ye]
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This wyl is in myn herte / and ay shal be
No lengthe of tyme / or deth may this deface
Ne chaunge my corage / to oother place
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¶ Glad was this Markys / of hir answeryng
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But yet he feyned / as he were nat so
Al drery was his cheere / and his lookyng
Whan þat he sholde / out of the chambre go
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Soone after this / a furlang wey or two
He pryuely / hath told al his entente
Vn to a man / and to his wyf hym sente
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¶ A maner sergeant/ was this priuee man [folio 181a]
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The which þat feithful ofte / he founden hadde
In thynges grete / and eek swich folk wel kan
Doon execucion / in thynges badde
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The lord knew wel / that he [hy]m loued and dradde
And whan this sergeant wiste his lordes wille
In to the chambre / he stalked hym ful stille
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