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

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II. DE REGIMINE PRINCIPUM, 1614 Than we shuld[en] ay <strong>to</strong>-gider dwelle.'Alk what <strong>the</strong>y menten wist he wel ynough.*Sones and doughters/ koth he, ' so<strong>the</strong> <strong>to</strong> telle,My wilk is goode also <strong>to</strong> be with yow.How shuld I merier be ?not wote I how,Than with you for<strong>to</strong> be contynuelkYour companye liketh'me fulk welk.'615 Now shope it so, <strong>the</strong>y held[en] hous in-fere,Save <strong>the</strong> fader, and as <strong>the</strong>y lough and pleide,His doughtres bo<strong>the</strong> with laughyng chereVn-<strong>to</strong> her fader spake, and thus <strong>the</strong>y seide,And <strong>to</strong> assoile her questiown hym preide.*What so euer it be,' koth <strong>the</strong> fader, ' now.And I kan or may, I shalk it telle yow/616 ' Now, goode fader, how muche moneyIn your stronge bounde cheste is, I you prey?''Ten thousand pound/ koth he, and lyed lowde.' I <strong>to</strong>lde hem,' koth he, ' not fulk longe ago.And |)at as redily as that I coude.Yf ye wilk aft^r J;is do <strong>to</strong> me soAs ye haue done, ye shulk haue alk tho.'617 After this day <strong>the</strong>y alk in one hous were,Til <strong>the</strong> day come <strong>of</strong> her faders dyingGoode mete and drynke and clo<strong>the</strong>s for<strong>to</strong> wereHe hade, and paide nought <strong>to</strong> his endyng.Whan he sawe <strong>the</strong> tyme <strong>of</strong> his departyng, ,His sones and his doughters did he calle.And in this wise he spake <strong>to</strong> hem alk.618 ' Not purpose I <strong>to</strong> make o<strong>the</strong>r testament,But <strong>of</strong> that is in my stronge chest ybounde ;c 2

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