[6-text p 162]
This Senatur is to kinge Alla go
To feste and schortly if .I. schal nouht lye
Costance sone in his companye
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¶ Som men wald seine att þe request of Custance
This Senatour haþe ledde þis childe to fest
.I. maie not tel euery Circumstance
Be as be may þere he was at lest
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Bot soþ þis is þat att his moder hest
Be-forne Alla dureinge þe mete space
The childe stode lokeinge in þe kinges face
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¶ This Alla kinge haþ of þis childe grete wonder
And to þe Senator he seide a none
Whos is þat faire childe þat stondeþ ȝonder
.I. note quod he be god and be seinte Iohn
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A moder he haþe bot fader haþe he none
Þat .I. of wote and schortly schortly in a stounde
He tolde Alla howe þat þis childe was founde
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¶ Bot god woote quod þis Senatour also
So vertuouse a leuere in my lyf
Sawhe .I. neuer as sche . ne herd of moo
Of werldly wemmen . Maiden or wif
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.I. dar wele saie sche had leuer a knyf
Thoruhe hir breste þan bene a womman wik
There is no man couþe bringe hire to þat prik
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¶ Nowe was þis childe as like vn to custance
As possible as is a creature to be
This Alla haþe þe face in remembrance
Of Dame Custance and þere-on mused he
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If þat þe childes moder weer ouht sche [folio 77b]
That is wif and priuely he siht
And sped him fro þe table þat he myht
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