The secretary layde hem doun echon;

Our billës first she redde hem on by on.

The first lady, bering in her devyse

Sans que jamais, thus wroot she in her bil;

Complayning sore and in ful pitous wyse

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Of promesse mad with faithful hert and wil

And so broken, ayenst al maner skil,

Without desert alwayes on her party;

In this mater desyring remedy.