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 I will you bring; and with a ring, By way of marriàge I will you take, and lady make, As shortly as I can: Thus have you won an Earles son, And not a banished man.

Here may ye see that women be         In love meek, kind, and stable;        Let never man reprove them than,          Or call them variable;        But rather pray God that we may          To them be comfortable;        Which sometime proveth such as He loveth,          If they be charitable.        For sith men would that women should          Be meek to them each one;        Much more ought they to God obey,          And serve but Him alone.   26. As ye came from the Holy Land

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As ye came from the holy land Of Walsinghame, Met you not with my true love By the way as you came?

How should I know your true love, That have met many a one As I came from the holy land, That have come, that have gone?