Should doe penaunce, and suffer open shame.

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Nay the like shame had neuer wight I weene,

Duches, lady, ne damsel of degree,

As I that was a princesse, next the queene,

Wife to a prince, and none so great as hee,

A kinge’s vncle, protector of his countrey,

With taper burning, shrouded in a sheete,

Three dayes a row, to passe the open streete,

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