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And when she saw there was but do or die. If this be true, speir8 ye at them that saw.
With all her might she forced her to swim,
And pressed upon the Toaddis back to
climb.

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THE MORAL.

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Syne to the land he flew with them good Brother if thou be wise, I reid 1 thee flee,

speed,

Than match thee with a thrawart feigned

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Excelland far all mannis judgèment.

For why? to Him all thing is aye present, Right as it is, or onytime shall be,

Before the sight of his divinity.

II.

Therefore our soul with sensuality
So fettered is in prison corporal,

We may not clearly understand, nor see
God as he is, nor things celestial.
Our mirk and deadly corps material,
Blindis the spiritual operation,

And everilk planet, in his proper sphere,
In moving makand harmony and sound.
The fire, the air, the water, and the ground,
Till understand it is enough, I wis,
That God in all his workis witty is.

VII.

Look well the fish that swimmis in the sea; Look well in earth all kind of beastial; The fowlis fair sae forcely 3 they flee, Sheddand the air with pennis great and small;

Like as ane man were bounden in prison. Syne look to man that God made last of all,

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"Se ye yon churl?" quoth she, "beyond Some with a burr they braided oure the

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Thus passèd forth till June that jolly tide, And seedis that were sowen of beforne Were growen heich, 3 that haris might them hide,

And als the qualzie craikand 4 in the corn; I moved forth betwixt mid-day and morn,

Nam levius lædit quicquid prævidimus Unto the hedge, under the hawthorn green,

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