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

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278 XXIII. NICHOLAS UDALL.Sory <strong>to</strong> heare reporte <strong>of</strong> your good welfare.For (as I heare say) suche your conditions are,That ye be worthie fauoirr : OfTo be abhorred : <strong>of</strong> euery honest manTo be taken for a woman enclined <strong>to</strong> viceNothing at all :no lining man 55<strong>to</strong> vertue giuing hir due price.Wherfore concerning mariage, ye are thoughtSuche a fine Paragon as nere honest man bought. 60And nowe by <strong>the</strong>se presents I doe you aduertise,That I am minded <strong>to</strong> marrie )'ou : In no wyseFor your goodes and substance : I can be contentTo take you as you are : yf ye will be my wife,Ye shall be assured for <strong>the</strong> time <strong>of</strong> my life, 6.:;I wyll keepe you right well : <strong>from</strong> good raiment and fareYe shall not be kept : but in sorowe and careYe shall in no wyse lyue : at your owne libertie,Doe and say what ye lust : ye shall neuer please meBut when ye are merrie : I will bee all sadde 70When ye are sorie : I wyll be very gladdeWhen ye seeke your heartes ease : I will be vnkindeAt no time :But allin me shall ye muche gentlenesse finde.things contrary <strong>to</strong> your will and mindeShall be done o<strong>the</strong>rwise : I wyll not be behynde 75To speake : And as for all <strong>the</strong>m^ that woulde do you wrong,(I wyll so helpe and maintayne ye) shall not lyue long.Nor any foolishe dolte shall cumber you, but I,I, who ere say nay, wyll sticke by you tyll I die.Thus, good mistresse Custance, <strong>the</strong> lorde you saue andkepe. 80From me, Roister Doister, whe<strong>the</strong>r I wake or slepe,Who fauoureth you no lesse, (ye may be bolde)^ Old text '<strong>the</strong>y'; but see p. 271.

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