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I. pray ȝow al my labour to relese
.I. maie nouht tel hir woo vn-to to morwe
.I. am so wery to speke of hir sorwe
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¶ Bot fynally whan þat þe soþe is wist
That Alla gilteles was of hir woo
.I. trowe. an .C. times bene þei kist
And suche a blisse is þere be-tuex hem two
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That saueþ þe ioy þat lasteþ euer mo [folio 78a]
There is none like þat any creature
Haþ seen or schal while þe werlde maye dure
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¶ Tho praide sche hir husbond mekly
In releueinge of hir longe pitous pyne
Þa he wolde praie hir fader s[p]ecialy
That he of his hihe Magestee enclyne
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To vowchesaue som day wiþ him to dyne
Sche praide him eke he scholde be no weie
Vnto hire fader no worde of hir seie
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¶ Som men wold sey howe þat þe Childe morice
Doþ þis Message vn-to þis Emperour
Bot as .I. gesse Alla was nouht so nyce
To him þat was of so souereigne honoure
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As he þat is of cristen folke þe floure
Sent any Childe but it is bet to deme
He went him selfe and so it maie wele seme
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¶ This Emperoure haþ graunted gentilly
To come to denere as he him besouht
And wele rede .I. he loked besyly.
Vpon þis child. and on his douhter þouht
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Alla goþe to his Inne as him ouhte
And array for þis feste in euery wise
As ferforþe as his comynge maie suffise
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