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Be it right or wrong these men among	A
On women do complain	B
Affirming this how that it is	C
A labour spent in vain	B
To love them wele for never a dele	D
They love a man again	E
For let a man do what he can	F
Their favour to attain	B
Yet if a new do them pursue	G
Their first true lover then	E
Laboureth for nought for from her thought	H
He is a banished man	F
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I say not nay but that all day	I
It is both writ and said	J
That woman's faith is as who saith	K
All utterly decayed	L
But nevertheless right good witness	M
In this case might be laid	L
That they love true and continue	G
Record the Nut brown Maid	L
Which when her love came her to prove	N
To her to make his moan	O
Would not depart for in her heart	P
She loved but him alone	O
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Then between us let us discuss	M
What was all the manere	Q
Between them two we will also	R
Tell all the pain and fere	Q
That she was in Now I begin	S
So that ye me answere	Q
Wherefore all ye that present be	T
I pray you give an ear	Q
I am the knight I come by night	U
As secret as I can	F
Saying ' Alas thus standeth the case	V
I am a banished man '	-
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SHE	T
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And I your will for to fulfil	D
In this will not refuse	W
Trusting to shew in wordes few	G
That men have an ill use	X
To their own shame women to blame	Y
And causeless them accuse	W
Therefore to you I answer now	Z
All women to excuse	X
Mine own heart dear with you what chere	Q
I pray you tell anone	Z
For in my mind of all mankind	A2
I love but you alone	Z
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HE	T
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It standeth so a dede is do	G
Whereof great harm shall grow	Q
My destiny is for to die	B2
A shameful death I trowe	C2
Or else to flee the one must be	T
None other way I know	Q
But to withdraw as an outlaw	D
And take me to my bow	Z
Wherefore adieu my own heart true	G
None other rede I can	Z
For I must to the green wood go	Q
Alone a banished man	Z
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SHE	T
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O Lord what is this worldys bliss	D2
That changeth as the moon	Z
My summer's day in lusty May	I
Is darked before the noon	Z
I hear you say farewell Nay nay	I
We depart not so soon	Z
Why say ye so wheder will ye go	Q
Alas what have ye done	Z
All my welfare to sorrow and care	Q
Should change if ye were gone	Z
For in my mind of all mankind	A2
I love but you alone	Z
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HE	T
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I can believe it shall you grieve	E2
And somewhat you distrain	Z
But afterward your paines hard	F2
Within a day or twain	Z
Shall soon aslake and ye shall take	G2
Comfort to you again	Z
Why should ye ought for to make thought	H
Your labour were in vain	Z
And thus I do and pray you to	G
As heartily as I can	Z
For I must to the green wood go	Q
Alone a banished man	Z
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SHE	T
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Now sith that ye have shewed to me	T
The secret of your mind	A2
I shall be plain to you again	Z
Like as ye shall me find	A2
Sith it is so that ye will go	Q
I wolle not leave behind	A2
Shall never be said the Nut brown Maid	L
Was to her love unkind	A2
Make you ready for so am I	B2
Although it were anone	Z
For in my mind of all mankind	A2
I love but you alone	Z
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HE	T
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Yet I you rede to take good heed	H2
What men will think and say	I
Of young and old it shall be told	I2
That ye be gone away	I
Your wanton will for to fulfil	D
In green wood you to play	D
And that ye might from your delight	U
No longer make delay	D
Rather than ye should thus for me	T
Be called an ill woman	Z
Yet would I to the green wood go	Q
Alone a banished man	Z
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SHE	T
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Though it be sung of old and young	A
That I should be to blame	Y
Theirs be the charge that speak so large	J2
In hurting of my name	Y
For I will prove that faithful love	K2
It is devoid of shame	Y
In your distress and heaviness	I
To part with you the same	Y
And sure all tho that do not so	I
True lovers are they none	Z
For in my mind of all mankind	A2
I love but you alone	Z
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HE	T
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I counsel you remember how	Z
It is no maiden's law	D
Nothing to doubt but to renne out	L2
To wood with an outlaw	D
For ye must there in your hand bear	Q
A bow ready to draw	D
And as a thief thus must you live	M2
Ever in dread and awe	C2
Whereby to you great harm might grow	I
Yet had I lever than	Z
That I had to the green wood go	I
Alone a banished man	Z
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SHE	T
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I think not nay but as ye say	I
It is no maiden's lore	Q
But love may make me for your sake	G2
As I have said before	Q
To come on foot to hunt and shoot	N2
To get us meat in store	Q
For so that I your company	T
May have I ask no more	Q
From which to part it maketh my heart	P
As cold as any stone	Z
For in my mind of all mankind	A2
I love but you alone	Z
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HE	T
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For an outlaw this is the law	D
That men him take and bind	A2
Without pity hanged to be	T
And waver with the wind	A2
If I had nede as God forbede	A2
What rescue could ye find	A2
Forsooth I trow ye and your bow	Z
For fear would draw behind	A2
And no mervayle for little avail	D
Were in your counsel then	Z
Wherefore I will to the green wood go	I
Alone a banished man	Z
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SHE	T
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Right well know ye that women be	T
But feeble for to fight	A2
No womanhede it is indeed	A2
To be bold as a knight	A2
Yet in such fear if that ye were	Q
With enemies day or night	A2
I would withstand with bow in hand	A2
To greve them as I might	A2
And you to save as women have	O2
From death men many a one	Z
For in my mind of all mankind	A2
I love but you alone	Z
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HE	T
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Yet take good hede for ever I drede	A2
That ye could not sustain	Z
The thorny ways the deep valleys	I
The snow the frost the rain	Z
The cold the heat for dry or wet	A2
We must lodge on the plain	Z
And us above none other roof	P2
But a brake bush or twain	Z
Which soon should grieve you I believe	E2
And ye would gladly then	Z
That I had to the green wood go	I
Alone a banished man	Z
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SHE	T
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Sith I have here been partynere	Q
With you of joy and bliss	I
I must als part of your woe	I
Endure as reason is	I
Yet am I sure of one pleasure	Q
And shortly it is this	I
That where ye be me seemeth parde	A2
I could not fare amiss	I
Without more speech I you beseech	Q2
That we were soon agone	Z
For in my mind of all mankind	A2
I love but you alone	Z
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HE	T
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If ye go thyder ye must consider	Q
When ye have lust to dine	Z
There shall no meat be for you gete	A2
Nor drink beer ale nor wine	Z
No shetes clean to lie between	Z
Made of thread and twine	Z
None other house but leaves and boughs	I
To cover your head and mine	Z
O mine heart sweet this evil diete	A2
Should make you pale and wan	Z
Wherefore I will to the green wood go	I
Alone a banished man	Z
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SHE	T
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Among the wild dere such an archere	Q
As men say that ye be	T
Ne may not fail of good vitayle	D
Where is so great plenty	T
And water clear of the ryvere	Q
Shall be full sweet to me	T
With which in hele I shall right wele	D
Endure as ye shall see	T
And or we go a bed or two	G
I can provide anone	Z
For in my mind of all mankind	A2
I love but you alone	Z
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HE	T
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Lo yet before ye must do more	Q
If ye will go with me	T
As cut your hair up by your ear	Q
Your kirtle by the knee	T
With bow in hand for to withstand	A2
Your enemies if need be	T
And this same night before day light	A2
To wood ward will I flee	T
If that ye will all this fulfil	T
Do it shortly as ye can	Z
Else will I to the green wood go	I
Alone a banished man	Z
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SHE	T
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I shall as now do more for you	G
Than 'longeth to womanhede	A2
To shorte my hair a bow to bear	Q
To shoot in time of need	A2
O my sweet mother before all other	Q
For you I have most drede	A2
But now adieu I must ensue	G
Where fortune doth me lead	A2
All this make ye Now let us flee	T
The day cometh fast upon	Z
For in my mind of all mankind	A2
I love but you alone	Z
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HE	T
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Nay nay not so ye shall not go	I
And I shall tell ye why	B2
Your appetite is to be light	A2
Of love I wele espy	T
For like as ye have said to me	T
In like wise hardely	T
Ye would answere whosoever it were	Q
In way of company	T
It is said of old Soon hot soon cold	A2
And so is a woman	Z
Wherefore I to the wood will go	I
Alone a banished man	Z
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SHE	T
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If ye take heed it is no need	A2
Such words to say by me	T
For oft ye prayed and long assayed	A2
Or I you loved parde	A2
And though that I of ancestry	T
A baron's daughter be	T
Yet have you proved how I you loved	A2
A squire of low degree	T
And ever shall whatso befall	T
To die therefore anone	Z
For in my mind of all mankind	A2
I love but you alone	Z
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HE	T
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A baron's child to be beguiled	A2
It were a cursed dede	A2
To be felawe with an outlawe	B2
Almighty God forbede	A2
Yet better were the poor squyere	T
Alone to forest yede	A2
Than ye should say another day	A2
That by my cursed dede	A2
Ye were betrayed Wherefore good maid	A2
The best rede that I can	Z
Is that I to the green wood go	I
Alone a banished man	Z
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SHE	T
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Whatever befall I never shall	T
Of this thing you upbraid	A2
But if ye go and leave me so	I
Then have ye me betrayed	A2
Remember you wele how that ye dele	T
For if ye as ye said	A2
Be so unkind to leave behind	A2
Your love the Nut brown Maid	A2
Trust me truly that I shall die	A2
Soon after ye be gone	Z
For in my mind of all mankind	A2
I love but you alone	Z
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HE	T
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If that ye went ye should repent	A2
For in the forest now	Z
I have purvayed me of a maid	A2
Whom I love more than you	G
Another fayrere than ever ye were	T
I dare it wele avow	Z
And of you both each should be wroth	K
With other as I trow	I
It were mine ease to live in peace	I
So will I if I can	Z
Wherefore I to the wood will go	I
Alone a banished man	Z
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SHE	T
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Though in the wood I understood	A2
Ye had a paramour	I
All this may nought remove my thought	A2
But that I will be your	I
And she shall find me soft and kind	A2
And courteys every hour	I
Glad to fulfil all that she will	T
Command me to my power	I
For had ye lo an hundred mo	I
Of them I would be one	Z
For in my mind of all mankind	A2
I love but you alone	Z
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HE	T
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Mine own dear love I see the proof	P2
That ye be kind and true	I
Of maid and wife in all my life	R2
The best that ever I knew	I
Be merry and glad be no more sad	A2
The case is changed new	I
For it were ruth that for your truth	K
Ye should have cause to rue	I
Be not dismayed whatsoever I said	A2
To you when I began	Z
I will not to the green wood go	I
I am no banished man	Z
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SHE	T
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These tidings be more glad to me	T
Than to be made a queen	Z
If I were sure they should endure	I
But it is often seen	Z
When men will break promise they speak	S2
The wordes on the splene	Z
Ye shape some wile me to beguile	T
And steal from me I ween	Z
Then were the case worse than it was	I
And I more wo begone	Z
For in my mind of all mankind	A2
I love but you alone	Z
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HE	T
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Ye shall not nede further to drede	A2
I will not disparage	T2
You God defend sith ye descend	A2
Of so great a lineage	U2
Now understand to Westmoreland	A2
Which is mine heritage	U2
I will you bring and with a ring	V2
By way of marriage	T2
I will you take and lady make	G2
As shortly as I can	Z
Thus have you won an erly's son	Z
And not a banished man	Z
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AUTHOR	I
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Here may ye see that women be	T
In love meek kind and stable	T
Let never man reprove them then	Z
Or call them variable	T
But rather pray God that we may	A2
To them be comfortable	T
Which sometime proveth such as he loveth	K
If they be charitable	T
For sith men would that women should	A2
Be meek to them each one	Z
Much more ought they to God obey	A2
And serve but Him alone	Z