(92) LA DAME.
"Of your disease ye may haue á-legeaunce; [allegeaunce T, allegeance H.]
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And as for myn, I lat hit ouer-schake. [UH, slake T.]
Also, ye schall not dye for my plesaunce,
Nor for your hele [UH, lyfe T.] I cane no suerty make.
I wyll [UH, wold.] not hate myn hert for oþer [othyrs T, othirs H.] sake:
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Wepe þei, laghe þei, [UH, or laghe T.] or syng, þis [UH, thus T.] I warant,
ffor this mater so wele to [weel to H, wyll I T, wele I U.] vndur-take,
Þat none of you schall make þer-of avaunt."
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(93) LAMANT.
"I can no skylle of song: by god allone,
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I haue mor cause to wepe in your presénce;
And wel [wel T, wele H, wil U.] I wote, avaunter am I none,
ffor certaynly, [UH, in certeyn T.] I loue better sylence.
On schuld not loue by his hertis credénce,
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But he wer suer to kepe hit secretly;
ffor ávaunter is of no reuerence
When þat his tonge is his most enemy."
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(94) LA DAME.
"Male-bouche in court hath gret comaundëment; [folio 132b]
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Ech man studith to say the wurst he may.
Thes fals louers, in þis tyme now presént,
Thai serue to bost, to Iangle as a Iay.
Þe most secret wylle wele þat sum man [men TH.] say
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how he mystristed is on sum partyse; [UH, in . . parte T.]
Wherfor, to ladyse what men speke or pray, [UH, wherfor these louers whatsoeuer they say T.]
It schuld not be byleuyd in no wyse."
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(95) LAMANT.
"Of good and yll, schall be, and is alway;
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the world is sich; þe erth it is nat playn.
Thay þat be good, the preef schewth euery day,
And othir-wyse, gret vylany, sertayn.
