¶ [No ¶ in MS.] 'Do oway, sir Tirri: þer-of speke nouȝt; [C line 9887]
Al idel speche it is þi þouȝt.
Wende oȝain hom now riȝt, [folio 162b:a]
& be nouȝt to prout, y þe rede:
To serue þi lord at al his nede
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Þou proue wiþ þi miȝt.
Desirite no man of his lond:
Ȝif þou dost þou gos to schond;
Ful siker be þou, apliȝt.
For ȝiue þou reue a man his fe
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Godes face schaltow neuer se,
No com in heuen liȝt.
¶ Biþenke þe wele of douke Berard,
Hou prout he was, for he was steward,
& flemed þe out of lond,
& he now desirite is,
Wiþ michel sorwe slayn, y-wis,
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& schamelich driuen to schond.
Y schal gon, & þou bileue schalt:
Y biteche þe god, þat al þing walt,
& maked wiþ his hond.'
Þai kisten hem togider þo:
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Oliue þai seyȝen hem neuer eft mo,
As þe gest doþ ous vnderstond.
¶ Gret sorwe þai made at her parting,
& kist hem wiþ eiȝe wepeing.
Þai wenten hem boþe atvo.
Als swiþe þerl Tirri went him hom,
Þre days he no ete mete non:
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In hert him was ful wo;
& when þe countas, sikerly,
