[6-text p 431]
Al ȝour pleisauns. wold I fulfille fayn
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But ȝit I hope it be not ȝoure entent
That I smocles out of ȝour chambre went
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Ȝe couþe not doon so dishonest a þing
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Þat þilke wombe in which ȝour children leye
Schulde byforn þe poeple in my walkyng
Be seye al bare wher-fore I ȝow pray
let me not lik a worm go by þe way /
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Remembre ȝow myn oughne lord so deere /
I was ȝour wyf. þough I vnworþy were
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Wherfor in guerdoun of my maydenhede
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which þat I brought and nought agayn I bere
As voucheth sauf. as ȝeue me to my meede
Such a smok as I was wont to were
That I þer with may wrye þe wombe of here /
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Þat was ȝour wif and here take I my leue
Of ȝow myn oughne lord. lest I ȝow greue
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The smok quod he þat þou hast on þy bak
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let it be stille and ber it forþ wiþ þe
But wel vnnethes þilke word he spak
But went his way for routhe and for pite
Byforn þe folk hir seluen strippith sche /
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And in hir smok. wiþ heed and foot al bare
Toward hir fader house forth is sche fare
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The folk hir folwen wepyng in hir weye
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And fortune ay þay cursen as þay goon
But/ sche fro wepyng kept hir eyen dreye [folio 128b]
Ne in þis tyme word ne spak sche noon
hir fader þat þis tyding herd anoon
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Cursed þe day and tyme þat nature
Schoop him to ben a lyues creature
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