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Sche peyneþ hire to make gode continance
And forþe þei lete hir saile in þis manere
And turne .I. wil aȝeine to my matier
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¶ The moder of þe Souldan wel of vices
Espied haþe hir sones pleine entent
How he wil lete his olde sacrifises
And riht a-none sche for hire conseille sent
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And þei comen to knowen what sche ment
And whan assembled was þes folk in fere
Sche sett hire doune and seide as ȝe schalle here.
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¶ Lordes quod sche ȝe knowen euerychone
Howe þat my sonne in pointe is fo to lete
The holy lawes of owre Akkaron
Ȝeuen be goddes Messagiere Makomete
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Bott on avowe to grete god .I. hete
The lif schal raþer oute of my bodi sterte
Or Macometis lawe oute of myne herte
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¶ What schuld vs tiden of þis newe lawe
Bot þraldom to oure bodies and penance
And afterward in hel to be drawe
ffor we reneyed Mahon oure creance
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Bot lordes wil ȝe maken assurance
As .I. schal seine assentinge to my lore
And .I. schal make us sauf for euer more
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¶ Thei sworen and assenten euery man
To leue wiþ hire and deye and by hire stande
And eueryche in þe best wise he can
To strengþen hir schal al his frendes fonde
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And sche haþe þis emprise take on honde
Whiche ȝe schal here þat .I. schal deuise
And to hem al sche spak in þis wise
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