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Alisaundrine anon after þat ilke
bad meliors manly here merþe þan stinte,
& seide, “it is so neiȝh niȝt þat nedes mote ye parte;
I drede me of descuuering for ȝe haue dwelled long.”
“allas! þis mochel meschef” saide melior þanne,
“þis day is schorter to siȝt þan it semed euere!”
& william seide þe same soþli þat time.
but alisaundrine anon answerede & seide,
“Make ȝe no mourning for ȝe may mete eft
dernli hennes-forþ eche day whan ȝou dere likes;
for-þi hasteli boþe heiȝe ȝou a-sunder.”
þanne seiȝ þei no socour but sunder þanne þei moste;
wiþ clipping & kessing þei kauȝt here leue,
& eiþer tok tit is way to his owne chaumber,
blisful for þei were botned of here bales strong,
seþþen hastely were þei hol & haden alle here wille.
wiþ alle listes of loue alle longe ȝeres
priueli vnperceyued þei pleyed to-gedere,
þat no seg vnder sunne souched no gile.
so wel was william bi-loued wiþ riche & wiþ pore,
so fre to feffe alle frekes wiþ ful faire ȝiftes,
þat þemperour soþli him-self soueraynli him loued,
& seþþe alle oþer seges þat seiȝen him wiþ eiȝen;
& algate alisaundrine at alle poyntes hem serued
so sliȝliche, þat no seg souched non euele,
but alle gauen god word to gomes þat hem plesede.
bad meliors manly here merþe þan stinte,
& seide, “it is so neiȝh niȝt þat nedes mote ye parte;
I drede me of descuuering for ȝe haue dwelled long.”
“allas! þis mochel meschef” saide melior þanne,
“þis day is schorter to siȝt þan it semed euere!”
& william seide þe same soþli þat time.
but alisaundrine anon answerede & seide,
“Make ȝe no mourning for ȝe may mete eft
dernli hennes-forþ eche day whan ȝou dere likes;
for-þi hasteli boþe heiȝe ȝou a-sunder.”
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wiþ clipping & kessing þei kauȝt here leue,
& eiþer tok tit is way to his owne chaumber,
blisful for þei were botned of here bales strong,
seþþen hastely were þei hol & haden alle here wille.
wiþ alle listes of loue alle longe ȝeres
priueli vnperceyued þei pleyed to-gedere,
þat no seg vnder sunne souched no gile.
so wel was william bi-loued wiþ riche & wiþ pore,
so fre to feffe alle frekes wiþ ful faire ȝiftes,
þat þemperour soþli him-self soueraynli him loued,
& seþþe alle oþer seges þat seiȝen him wiþ eiȝen;
& algate alisaundrine at alle poyntes hem serued
so sliȝliche, þat no seg souched non euele,
but alle gauen god word to gomes þat hem plesede.
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