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

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X. THE NUT-BROWN MAID. I07When men wyl breke promyse, <strong>the</strong>y speke <strong>the</strong> wordis on<strong>the</strong> splene. 165Ye shape some wyle, me <strong>to</strong> begyle, and stele fro me, IweneThen were <strong>the</strong> case wurs than it was, & I more woobegoneFor in my mynde, <strong>of</strong> al mankynde, I loue but you alone/29.*Ye shal not nede fur<strong>the</strong>r <strong>to</strong> drede, I wyl not disp(2rageYou, god defende, sith ye^ descende <strong>of</strong> so grete a lynage : 170Now vnders<strong>to</strong>nde, <strong>to</strong> Westmorelonde ^, whiche is my herytage,I wyl you bringe, and wyth a rynge, be wey <strong>of</strong> maryageI wyl you take, and lady make, as shortly as I canThus haue ye wone an erles son, and not a banysshyd man !'30.Here may ye see that wymen be in loue meke, kinde, &stable, 175Late neuer man repreue <strong>the</strong>m than, or calle <strong>the</strong>m variableBut ra<strong>the</strong>r prey god that we may <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong>m be confortable.Which somtyme prouyth suche as he^ loueth, yf <strong>the</strong>y becharitableFor sith men wolde that wymen sholde be meke <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong>mecheon,Moche more ought <strong>the</strong>y <strong>to</strong> god obey, and serue but hymalone. 180^ 'ye' ill MS. ; 'you' in Arnold; see note.2 'Westmorelond ' in MS.; ' westmerlande ' in Arnold.^ 'he ' supplied <strong>from</strong> <strong>the</strong> MS.

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