With al the poeple long and brod,
The king and queene sorwe made,
Bot yit somdiel thei weren glade
Of such thing as thei herden tho:
To schip he goth, his wif with childe,
The which was evere meke and mylde 1030
And wolde noght departe him fro,
To whom was schape a woful lif.
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