That thurgh the conseil of you tuo

I stonde in point to ben undo,

As he which is a king deposed.

For every man it hath supposed,

How that my wif Constance is faie;

And if that I, thei sein, delaie[606] 1020

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To put hire out of compaignie,[607]

The worschipe of my Regalie

Is lore; and over this thei telle,