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‘Byrdus and bestis, aye woo ye be!
Alone ye haue lefte me,
and bewails her lost children.
My children) ye have slone.’
As she walkid than) a-lone, 2020
She sye lordis on) huntyng gone, [2121]
Nere hem) she yede full̴ sone.
This carfull̴ lady cried faste,
Than she herd this hornes blaste
By the yatis gone, 2025
Desonell flees from some hunters
But ran in to a wildernes,
Amongist beests that wyld wes,
For drede, she shold be slone.
2018. haue] a corrected out of e MS.
2019. have sl.] slough MS.
2026. ran] om. MS.
2027. was MS.
DESONELL FLEES TO THE LAND OF NAZARETH.