[6-text p 135]
In hir is hihe beaute wiþ oute pride
Ȝowþe wiþ oute greuehode or foly
To al hire werkes vertue is hir gyde
Humblesse haþe slayne in ȝowe al tyranny
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Hire herte is verrai chambre of holynesse
Hir hande Ministre of fredam for almesse
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¶ And al þis voice was soþe as god is trewe
Bot nowe to purpos lat vs turne aȝeine
This marchantez han don frauht here schippes newe
And whan þei han þis blisseful Maiden seine
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Home to surre be þei wente aȝeine
And done here nedes as þei han done ȝore
And leuen in wele .I. can say ȝow no more
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¶ Nowe fel it þat þese marchantz stoden in grace
Of him þat was Souldan of Surrye
ffor whan þat þei cam from any strange place
He wolde of his benigne curtesie
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Make hem good chiere and besilye aspye
Thinges of sundre remes for to lere
The wonderes þat þei myht se or here
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¶ Amonges oþer þinges specialy
Thos Marchantz hane him tolde of dame Custance
So grete noblesse in erneste curiousely
Þat þis souldan haþ kauht so grete plesance
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To hane hir figure in his remembrance
And al his lust and al his besy cure
Was for to loue hir while his lif maie dure
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¶ Parauenture in þe large booke
Whiche þat cleped þe heuen y-writen was
Wiþ sterres whan þat he his birþe toke
That he for loue schol haue his deþe alas
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