[6-text p 415]
This is myn wif / quod he þat standyth heere
Honoureth hire / & louyth hire I preye
Who so me louyth þere is no more to seye
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And for þat nothyng / of hire olde gere
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Sche schulde brynge in-to his hous he bad
That wemen schulde dispoylyn hire ryȝt þere
Of whiche þese / ladyis were not ryȝt glad
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To handele hire clothis / wherIn sche was clad
But natheles þis mayde bryȝt of hewe
ffrom foot to heed they cloþede han al newe
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Hyre heris han þey kembit that lay vntrussede
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fful rudely & with here fyngerys smale
A coroun on hire heed þey han dressyd
And set hire ful of nouchis grete & smale
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Of hire a-ray what schulde I make a tale
Oneþe þe puple hire knew for hire fayrnesse
Whan sche translatede was in swich rychesse
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This Markis hath hire spousede with a ryng
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Brouȝt for þe same cause & þanne hire sette
Vp-on an hors snow whit & wel amblenge
And to his paleys he wolde no lengere lette
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With Ioyful puple þat hire ledde & mette
Conueyede hire & þus þe day þey spende
In reuel tyl þe sonne gan descende
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And shortely forth þis tale for to chace [folio 248a]
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I seye þat to þis / newe Markysesse
God hath swych fauour sent hire of his grace
That it semede not bi liklynesse
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That sche was born & fed in rewedenesse
As in a Cote / or in an oxsis stalle
But norchede in / an emperourys halle
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