[6-text p 146]
¶ Sche dryueþ forþ in to owre Occeane
Þoruhe oute þe wilde see till att þe last
Vnder an castel þat neuen .y. ne can
ffor in Norþe Humbrelond þe wawe her caste
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And in þe sonde þe schippe stikked so fast
That þens wold it nouht of al a tyde
The wil of criste was þat sche scholde abide
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¶ The Cunstable of þe Castel doune is fare
To seen þis wrakke and al þe schipe he souhte
And fonde þis wery womman ful of Care
He fonde also tresoure þat sche brouht
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In hir langage Mercie sche be-souht
Þe lif oute of þe body for to twynne
Hir to deliuer of woo þat sche was inne
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¶ A maner latine corrupte was hir speche
Bot algatez þere by was sche vnderstonde
The Constable whan him lust no longer seche
This wooful womman brouht he to þe londe
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Sche kneleþ doune and þonkeþ goddes sonde
Bot what sche was sche wolde no man seye
ffor foule ne faire þouhe þat sche scholde deye
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¶ Sche seid sche was so mased in þe see
Þat sche for-gat here mynde be hir trouþe
The constable of hir haþe so grete pite [folio 71b]
And eke his wif þat þei wepen for reuþe
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Sche was so diligent wiþ owten sleuþe
To serue and plese eueryche in þat place
That al hir louen þat loken on hir face
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¶ The Constable and dam Ermenilda his wif
Where payneins and þat cuntre euery where
Bot Ermenilda loued here riht as hir lif
And custance haþ so longe soiourned þere
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