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1 'Dame,' quod she / Right of Entent / [Camb. MS. reads: 'Lady,' quod she, 'to yow j come to chide, for to defende myn owen. Wennes cometh it yow for to remeue myne ordinaunces?' Camb., p. 24.]
'As yee stonden / her present, [folio 52b]
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Wher-so that yee / be leeff1 [[1_1 [Stowe folio 64a] ]] or loth,
With youre gouérnaunce I am wroth,
That ye be bold, in any wyse
ffor to medle of my fraunchyse.
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And I am kome, as ye may se,
To dyffende my lyberte.
Vn-to yow yt ys nat due [Stowe folio 64b]
My ordynauncys to remeue.
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Record I take off allë wyse,
Yt outhe ynowgh to yow suffyse
The party that ye han ytake,
And no maystryës for to make
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In the boundys that I kepe.
'ffor, thogh ye han [[haue St.]] the lordshepe
Off the heuene & euery spere,
And off the sterrys bryht & clere,
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And off the planetys hih a-loffte,
Somme swyfft & sommë soffte
Holdyng ther cours & ther mevyng,
And as ye lyst in allë thyng
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They stonden all in your demeyne,
Ther cours, as ye lyst, ordeyne.
Ouer hem ye han the souereynte;
And yiff I woldë medle me
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Towchyng ther cours, or how they goth,
With me ye woldë be ful wroth,
And my presumpcïon despyse.
And I, ryht in the syluë wyse,
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Yiff ye medlede wrongfully
Touchyng the boundys of my party,
Ther to cleyme off me lordshepe,
My fredam I woldë kepe.
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Rather than suffren any wrong,
I woldë deye, thogh ye be strong;
