1936 And so I did full often, God it wot, That made his face full often red and hot For very shame, and blam’d himself, for he Had told to me so great a privity. 1937 And so befell that onës in a Lent (So oftentimes I to my gossip went, For ever yet I loved to be gay, And for to walk in March, April, and May From house to house, to hearë sundry tales), That Jenkin clerk, and my gossíp, Dame Ales, And I myself, into the fieldës went. Mine husband was at London all that Lent; I had the better leisure for to play, And for to see, and eke for to be sey 1938 Of lusty folk; what wist I where my grace 1939 Was shapen 1940 for to be, or in what place? Therefore made I my visitatións To vigilies,

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