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Specimens of English literature from the 'Ploughmans crede' to the ...

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X. THE NUT-BROWN MAID. gj\_Poem <strong>of</strong> 'The Nut-Brown Maid!'\1.Be it right or wro/^g, <strong>the</strong>se mew among, on wome;'/ do cowplaine,AfFermyng this, how that it is a labour spent in vaineTo loue <strong>the</strong>;?^ wele ; for neuer a dele <strong>the</strong>y loue a managayneFor lete a man do what he can, <strong>the</strong>r fauour ^ <strong>to</strong> attayne,Yet yf a newe <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong>m pursue, <strong>the</strong>r furst trew louer than 5Laboureth for nought, and <strong>from</strong> her though [t] he is a bannisshedn\2ai.I say not nay, but that all day it is bo<strong>the</strong> writ and saydeThat womans fayth, is as who say<strong>the</strong>, all vtterly decayed ;But neucT<strong>the</strong>les, right good witnes \n this case might belaydeThat <strong>the</strong>y loue trewe, & co;2tynew ;recorde th^ Nutbr[o]wnemaide, 10Whiche <strong>from</strong> her loue, wha;^, her <strong>to</strong> proue, he cam <strong>to</strong>makehis mone,Wolde not departe, for in her herte she louyd but hymallone.3.Than betwene vs lete vs discusse, what was all <strong>the</strong> manerBe-twene <strong>the</strong>m <strong>to</strong>o ; we wyl also telle all <strong>the</strong>^ peyne in-fereThat she was in ; now I begynne, soo that ye me answere. 1^ Printed ' fouour ' in <strong>the</strong> first edition.2 Printed '<strong>the</strong>y' in <strong>the</strong> first edition; <strong>the</strong> Balliol MS. has ' <strong>the</strong>.'H

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