Ȝe sechen londe and See for your wynnynges
As wyse folkes þat knowen alle þe staat /
Of regnes ye ben fadres & tydynges
And tales bothen of pees & debate
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I were riȝt nowe of talys dissolate
Nere þat a marchaunt goon ys many ·a· yeere
Me taught a tale whiche as · ȝe shal here [[Sloane extract ends.]] [[Lines 981-7, p. 161, are repeated in the MS, leaf 208. Here is the second version, marked, in a later hand, vatat, for vacat, at the side:—
This senatourys wif hyre aunte wasBut for al þat sche knew hyre neuere þe moreI wele no lengere taryen in þis casBut to kyng alla which I spak of ȝoreThat for his wyf wepith & sykyth soreI wele returne & lete I wele custaunceVndyr þe senatourys gouernaunce]]
