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¶ Madame he seyde / ye mote foryeue it me
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Thogh I do thyng to which I am constreyned
Ye ben so wys / þat ful wel knowe ye
That lordes hestes / mowe nat ben yfeyned
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They mowe wel been / biwailled / or compleyned
But men mote nede / vn to hir lust obeye
And so wol I / ther is namoore to seye
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¶ This child / I am comaunded for to take
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And spak namoore / but out the child he hente
Despitously / and gan a cheere make
As thogh he wolde / han slayn it er he wente
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Grisildis moot al suffre / and al consente
And as a lamb / she sitteth meke and stille
And leet this crewel sergeant doon his wille
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¶ Suspecious was / the diffame of this man [¶ Suspecta viri fama.] [¶ Suspecta facies.]
Suspect his face / suspect his word also [¶ Suspecta hora.]
Suspect/ the tyme / in which he this bigan [¶ Suspecta erat oracio.]
Allas hir doghter / þat she loued so
She wende / he wolde / han slayn it right tho
But nathelees / she neither weepe ne syked
Conformynge hire / to that the Markys liked
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¶ But at the laste / speken she bigan
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And mekely / she to the sergeant preyde
So as he was / a worthy gentil man
That she moste kisse hir child / er þat it deyde
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And on hir barm / this litel child she leyde
With ful sad face / and gan the child to blesse
And lulled it and after gan it kesse
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¶ [A [Rats.] [folio 181b] ]nd thus she seyde / in hir benygne voys
ffare wel my child / I shal thee neuere see
But sith I thee / haue marked with the croys
Of thilke fader / blessed mote he be
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