[6-text p 152]
¶ But who was woful if I schul nat lye
Of þis wedding but Donegilde and nomo
The kinges mooder ful of tyrannye
hir þought hir cursed herte barst/ a two
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Sche wolde nought hir sone hadde don so
hir þought a despit þat he schulde take
So strange a creature vnto his make
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¶ Me list nouȝt of þe chaf ne of þe stre
Make so long a tale as of þe corn
What schulde I tellen of þe realte
Of mariage or which cours goþ biforn
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Who bloweþ in a trompe or in an horn
The fruyt of euery tale is for to seie/
Thei ete and drynke and daunce and synge and pleye
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They gon to bedde as it was skile and right
ffor þough þat wyfes ben ful holy þinges
They moste take a pacience a night
Such manere necessaries as ben plesynges
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To folk þat han y-wedded hem wiþ rynges
And leye a litel here holynesse asyde
As for þe time it may non oþer betyde
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¶ On hire he gat a knaue child anon
And to a bisshope and his counseil eeke
he took his wijf to kepe whan he is goon
To Scotland ward his fomen for to seeke
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Now faire Custance þat is so humble and meeke
So longe is gon wiþ childe til þat stille
Sche halt hir chambre abydyng at cristes wille
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¶ The tyme is come a knaue child sche beer
Mauricius atte font ston þei him calle
This Constable doþ forþ come a messagere [folio 84a]
And wrot to his king þat cleped was alle.
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