Other Councell, it [other counsail it H, others counsayles hit T, hit om. U.] are but fantasise, [UH, fantasyes T.]
Saf of [of HT, om. U.] your grace to shewe pitë and routhe."
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(68) LA DAME.
"I holde hym wise, þat wurcheth folyly,
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And, whan hym list, can leue [And . . leue UH, when he can leue T.] and part therfro;
But in konnyng he is to lerne, trewely,
þat wold hym selfe condit, [conduyte H, condute T.] and cannot [cannat HT, canno U.] so.
And he þat will not after Conseyll do,
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his sute [UT, suerte UH (sute in margin).] he putteth in desé[s]peraunce;
And all the good, which [goodys T, good which H.] þat shuld fall hym to,
Is lefte as [UH, all T.] dede, clene out of rémembraunce."
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(69) LAMANT.
"yit will y sue this matier faythfully
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whils y may leue, what-euer be [UH, what oon by T.] my chaunce;
And if it happe þat in my trouth y die,
þat dethe shall not do me no displesaunce.
But when þat y, by your full hard [UT, your harde H.] sufferaunce,
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Shall die so trewe, and with so gretë [UT, grete a H.] peyne,
yit shall it do me moche the [UT, moche H.] lesse grevaunce,
þen for to leue a fals louer, sertayn."
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(70) LA DAME.
"Of me gete ye right nought, this is no fable; [folio 128b]
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I nyll [UH, wyll T.] to you be nether hard nor streyght;
And right wil nat, nor maner Custumáble,
To thynke ye shuld be sure of myn conseyt.
Who secheth sorow, [UH, sorowys T.] his be [is by H ('his bi' margin), by T.] the reseyt.
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Other Counceyll can y not fele nor se;
Nor for to lerne, y cast not to awayte:
Who wyll therto, late hym assay, for me."
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