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 And here ayeen my clothing I restore  
 And eke my weddyng ryng for euermore  
 The remenaunt of your iewellis redy they be  
With ynne your chamber I dar it safly seyn  
 Nakid out of my fadres hous quod she  
 I cam and nakid muste I turne ayeen  
 Al your plesaunce folow wolde I feyn  
 But yet I hope it be not your entent  
That I smokles out of your paleis went  
 Ye coude not do so dishonest a thyng  
 That ilke wombe in whiche your children lay  
 Sholde before the pepyl in my walkyng  
 Be seye al bare wherfore I you pray  
Let me not lik a worm go by the wey  
 Remembre you myn owen lord so dere  
 I was your wyf thogh I vnworthy were  
 Wherfore in guerdom of my maydenhede  
 Whiche that I broughte and not ayen y bere  
As vouchesauf as yeue me to my mede  
 But suche a smok as I was wont to were  
 That I therwith may wrye the wombe of here  
 That was your wyf and here I take my leue  
 Of you myn owen lord leest that I you greue  
The smok quod he that thou hast vp on thy bak  
 Let it be stylle and bere it forth with the  
 But wel vnnethe that word he spak  
 But wente his wey for routhe and pyte  
 Be for the folk her self striped hath she  
And in her smok with foot and heer al bare  

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