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How þat oure dayis / passe in sundery wyse
ffor thow we slepe / or wake or rome or ryde
Ay fleth þe tyme / it nyl no man a-byde
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And þow ȝoure / grene thouȝt floure as ȝit
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In crepith age / al-wey as stylle as ston
And deth manasith / euery age & smyt
In eche estat / for þere escapith noon
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And also serteyn / as we knowyn echon
That we schal deye / as vncerteyn with alle
Been of þat day / whan deth schal on vs falle
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Acceptyth þanne / of vs þe trewe entent
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That neuere ȝit / refusedyn þyn heste
And we wele lord / ȝif þat ȝe wele assent
Chese ȝow a wyf / in schort tyme at þe leste
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Born of þe / gentilleste & of þe meste
Of al þis lond / so þat it oghte seene
Honour to god / & ȝow as we can deme
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Delyuere vs / out of al þis bosy drede
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And tak a wif for hyghe godis sake
ffor ȝif it / so be-fel as god forbede
That þorw ȝoure deth ȝoure lyf schulde slake
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And þat a straunge successour schulde take
ȝoure erytage o wo were vs on lyue
Wherfore we prey ȝow hastyly to wyue
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Hire meke preyere & here pitous chire
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Made þe Markis herte to haue pytee
ȝe wele quod he myn owene peple dere
To þat I neuere erst thouȝte to streyne me
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I me reioysede of myn libertee
That selde tyme is founde in maryage
There I was fre I mote been in seruage
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