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 | title    = Middle Cornish Charter Fragment (Add. Ch. 19491)
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 | year     = c/1400
 | language = cnx
 | original = Middle Cornish Charter Fragment (Add. Ch. 19491)
 | notes    = Middle Cornish language work [[Middle Cornish Charter Fragment (Add. Ch. 19491)]]
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Listen friend, {{pline|1}}<br />
Do not be shy! {{pline|2}}<br />
Come down and rest {{pline|3}}<br />
and come closer to me {{pline|4}}<br />
if you know what is to your advantage, {{pline|5}}<br />

and I will give you a girl, {{pline|6}}<br />
one who is very beautiful. {{pline|7}}<br />
If you like her, {{pline|8}}<br />
go and get her; {{pline|9}}<br />

take her for your wife. {{pline|10}}<br />
She will not murmur to refuse you {{pline|11}}<br />
and you will have her {{pline|12}}<br />
She will be a good wife {{pline|13}}<br />
to keep house for you. {{pline|14}}<br />

I tell you the complete truth. {{pline|15}}<br />
Go and ask her {{pline|16}}<br />
Now I give her into your hand {{pline|17}}<br />
and on the Creed I swear {{pline|18}}<br />
there is not her equal {{pline|19}}<br />

from here to the Tamar Bridge. {{pline|20}}<br />
I beg you to be good to her {{pline|21}}<br />
and she will all you want, {{pline|22}}<br />
for she is a child and truthful withal. {{pline|23}}<br />
Go and let her have her own way. {{pline|24}}<br />

Before going, {{pline|25}}<br />
have a kiss for me! {{pline|25a}}
Go away and be quick! {{pline|26}}<br />

Begin promptly, eagerly. Take care {{pline|27}}<br />
to make him nervous {{pline|28}}<br />
so that he dare not {{pline|29}}<br />

oppose you at all. {{pline|30}}<br />
If he bids you do something, {{pline|31}}<br />
say to yourself, "I never will." {{pline|32}}<br />
Say to him "I will do it if you wish." {{pline|33}}<br />
For all he can, he will do nothing. {{pline|34}}<br />

Then he will esteem you as Mistress {{pline|35}}<br />
and Lady as long as you live. {{pline|36}}<br />

He was troubled, by the Mass. {{pline|37}}<br />
Courteous and kind is he {{pline|38}}<br />
He will not do you any harm {{pline|39}}<br />

If you (can) enthral him {{pline|40}}<br />
hold him tightly so!  {{pline|41}}
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