[6-text p 413]
If þat ȝe vouche sauf what so betyde /
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Thy doughter wil I take er þat I wende
As for my wyf vnto hir lyues ende /
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Thow louest me I wot it wel certeyn
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And art my faithful liege man I-bore /
And al þat likith me I dar wel sayn
It likith þe . and specially þerfore
Tel me þat poynt . as ȝe haue herd bifore
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If þat þow wolt vnto þat purpos drawe /
To take me as for þy · sone in lawe
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The sodeyn caas þe man astoneyd þo
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That reed he wax abaischt and al quakyng
he stood vnneþe sayd he wordes mo
But oonly þis . lord quod he my willyng
Is as ȝe wol aȝenst ȝoure likyng
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I wol no þing ȝe be my lord so deere
Right as ȝow list gouernith þis matiere
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Ȝit wol I quod þis markys softely
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That in þy chambre I and þou and sche /
haue a collacioun and wostow why
For I wol aske if it hir wille be
To be my wyf and reule hir after me
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And al þis schal ben doon in þy presence
I wol nought speke out of þyn audience
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And in þe chamber whil þay were aboute
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her tretys which as ȝe schul after hiere
The poeple cam vnto þe hous wiþoute [folio 121a]
And wondrid hem in how honest manere
And tendurly sche kept hir fader deere
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But outerly grisildes wonder might
For neuer erst ne saugh sche such a sight
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