There for to passe it was greet comb[e]raunce,

The people stood so thikke in every place.

"Now stand ye stil," quod she, "a litel space;

And for your ese somwhat I shal assay,

If I can make you any better way."

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And forth she goth among hem everichon,

Making a way, that we might thorugh pas

More at our ese; and whan she had so don,

She beckned us to come where-as she was;