[6-text p 411]
In vertu he / consyderede ful ryȝt
Hire bou[n]teis / & purposede þat he wolde
Wedde hire only / ȝif þat he wedde schulde
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The day of weddyng / cam but no wight kan
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Telle what / woman þat it schulde be
ffor whiche merueyle / wonderede manye a man
And seydyn whan þat / þey were in pryuyte
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Wele not oure lord / ȝit leue his vanyte
Wele he not wedde / allas allas þe whyle
Whi wele he þus hym self & vs begyle
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But natheles þis Markis hath don make [folio 246a]
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Of gounnys set / in gold & in asure
Brochis & ryngis / for gresildis sake
And of hire clothynge / tok he þe mesure
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By a maydyn / lyk to hyr stature
And ek of oþere / aornementis alle
That on to swich / a weddyng schulde falle
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The tyme of vnderne / of þe soneday
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Aprochith that / þis weddynge schulde bee
And al þe paleys / put was In aray
Bothe halle & chaumberys / eche in hese degre
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Housis of offysis / stuffed with gret plente
There mayst þou sen / of deynteuous vitayle
That may be founde / as fer as last ytaylle
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This riche Markis / ryally arayed
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Lordis & ladiis in his cumpaynye
The whech to þe / feste were I-preyed
And of his / retente þe bacherye
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And manye a soun / of sundery melodye
Vn-to þe village / of þe whiche I tolde
In þis aray / þe ryȝte weye han holde
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