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Folio 135 Verso
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A wryt with in shall vnto you declare •
and in effecte pleynly spesyfye •
wher ye shall ponishe and where as ye shall spare •
and how þat mercy shall rygor modefye •
and your estate also to magnyfye •
this arke of god to make you gracyous •
shall still abyde with you in your hous •
ffor whylles it bydethe still in your presence •
the hygħ lord shall blesse both you and yours •
of grace of fortune send you influence •
and of vertue all þe freshe floures •
and of aduersyte voyd all waye þe shures •
sett pees and reste welfare and vnytie •
durynge youre tyme thorugħe this sytie / lenuoyefinis1 •
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  1. The scribe concluded with "lenvoye, struck it through, and replaced it with "finis." ↩

The work on this manuscript witness was generously supported by a ZKS-Lendrum Fellowship in the Scientific Study of Manuscripts and Inscriptions at the Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Durham University. The transcription of this work is owned by the editor and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The images are (c) British Library Board (British Library Additional MS 29729) and rights are reserved.