"Ȝe, sir," seide þe fals quene; "crist it ȝelde þe;
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So þou miȝth best legge strif; þan mowe we euen be."
"Nay, sir," seide þe riȝth moder; "mercy, þat do þou nouȝth!
Take hire raþer euerich del; þat it ne be to deþ ybrouȝth."
"Ȝe, good womman," þe kyng seide; "take þat child to þe;
ffor þou hast þe riȝth weye; & þe oþere þe falste."
MIchel wonder hadden al þat folk · þat herden of þis strif,
Þat þe kyng þouȝth swich wisdom; in his ȝong lyf.
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Men douteden þerafter-ward hym þe more; for þilk cas.
Good pais þere was in hil londe; þer while he kyng was.
Vche weke he spended in his hous; xxx. quarters of whete,
And an hundreþ fatte weþers; & xxx. Oxen grete,
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Wiþouten venison & oþer þing; þat he had by deinte:
In þe werlde was non so riche court; ne of so gret plente.
He arered treble wal; swiþe fair & strong
Aboute þe burghȝ of Ierusalem; swiþe fair & long.
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Þe fierþe ȝer of his regne; he gan his temple arere,
& in þe elleuenþe ȝer was it; er it redy were.
Þo bigan he arere his court; swiþe noble & hende;
Xiij. ȝer þer-aboute he was; er it were brouȝth to ende. [[For what follows, see p. 82, above. The Book of Wisdom may be compard with the A B C, and How the Good Wife and Good Man taught their Daughter and Son, in my Babees Book, Q. Elizabethes Achademy, &c., and with Mr Lumby's Ratis Raving, &c, &c.]]
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