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And playnly al þe maner he him tolde
As ȝe han herd / I can telle it no better
And schewed þe kynges seal and his letter
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And seyde lord as ȝe comaunded me
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vp peyne of deþ so haue I do certayn
This messager tormented was til he
Moste biknowe and telle it plat and playn ·
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Fro nyght to night in what place he had layn ·
And þus by witt/ and subtil enqueryng
ymagined was by wham þis gan to spryng
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The hand was knowen þat þe lettre wroot
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And al þe venym of þis cursed dede
But in what wyse certeynly I noot
Theffect is þis þat alla out of drede
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his moder slough as men may pleynly reede /
For þat sche traytour was to hir ligeaunce
Thus endeþ olde Domegild wiþ meschaunce
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The sorwe þat/ þis alla night and day
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Makþ for his wyf and for his child also
Ther is no tonge þat it telle may
But now I wol vnto Custaunce go
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That fleetetþ in þe see in peyne and wo
.V. ȝeer and more as likeþ cristes sonde
Er þat hir schip approched vnto londe
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Vnder an hethen castel atte last
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Of which þe name in my text nouȝt I fynde
Constaunce and eek hir child þe see vpcast
Almighty god þat saueth al mankynde /
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Haue on Constaunce and on hir child som mynde
That fallen is in hethen hond eft sone
In poynt to spille as I schal telle ȝou soone
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