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Retourneth / to youre fadres hous quod he
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No man may / alwey han prosperitee
With euene herte / I rede yow tendure
The strook / of ffortune / or of auenture
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¶ And she agayn / answerde in pacience
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My lord quod she / I woot and wiste alway
How þat bitwixen / youre magnificence
And my pouerte / no wight kan ne may
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Maken comparison / it is no nay
I ne heeld me neuere digne / in no manere
To be youre wyf/ no; ne youre chambrere
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And in this hous / ther ye me lady made [folio 185b]
The heighe god take I / for my witnesse
And also wisly / he my soule glade
I neuere heeld me lady / ne maistresse
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But humble seruant to youre worthynesse
And euere shal / whil þat my lyf may dure
Abouen / euery worldly creature
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¶ That ye so longe / of youre benygnytee
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Han holden me / in honour and nobleye
Where as I was / noght worthy for to be
That thonke I god and yow / to whom I preye
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fforyelde it yow / ther is namoore to seye
Vn to my fader / gladly wol I wende
And with hym dwelle / vn to my lyues ende
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¶ Ther I was fostred / of a child ful smal
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Til I be deed / my lyf ther wol I lede
A wydewe clene / in body / herte / and al
ffor sith / I yaf to yow / my maydenhede
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And am youre trewe wyf / it is no drede
God shilde / swich a lordes wyf to take
Another man / to housbond / or to make
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