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Folio 144 Recto
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ffor to consider thinges all •
namely parylles / or they fall •
and who that haue by gouernaunce •
of ryghtwysnes the ballaunce •
and strongly hold in his deffence •
the swerd of hir magnyfycence •
ye bene assured / from all myschaunce •
namely whan that attemperaunce •
hir1 suster gouerneth all thre •
ffrom fortune2 ye may than go fre •
both allwye / in hert and thought •
whyle ye be so / no dred hur3 nought •
but avoydeth / hir acqueyntaunce •
ffor hir double varyaunce •
and fleeth oute of hir company •
and all that ben of hur allye •
and ye foure susters glad of chere •
shuld abyde here all this yeare •
Ii[n]n4 this housould at liberte •
and Ioye and all prosparyte •
with you to housold ye shuld bring •
and ye all foure shall now syng •
with all your hole herte entier •
some new songe aboute the fyre •
suche on as you lyketh best •
lat ffortune go playe hir wher hir liste / explicit •
Notes
  1. It is possible that this is "y" with a tittle, but as y appears elsewhere in the manuscript without any sort of indication I believe it's more likely that this is intended as "i." ↩
  2. Bracketed on the right. ↩
  3. This, when compared with "hir" at lines two and six of this section, provides a particularly good example of how the two forms of the word throughout are "hir" and "hur," respectively. ↩
  4. The scribe wrote the initial "I" here, then immediately followed it with "in." Realizing the error it appears they completed the "n," but the tittle for "i" was left. ↩

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.