Hardynes was cause that they had vyctory

 O worthy hardynes the shynynge sterre

Alway to mannys herte the comfort

Whan that it is the tyme of werre

Vnto what partye that thou resort

They wynne the batall by thy support

And wher that thou lettest thy bemys dyssende

They often hye to honoure assende

cc .vii.

 Than sayd dame hardynes vnto the Iuge

I pray you that ryght I may haue

Sythens I to man am chyef refuge

Whan that he lysteth of me to craue

I make hym coragyous and his worshyp saue

Wherfore I owte to haue the preemynence

By ryght reason and good experyence

 That I deny you sayd dame Sapyence

Of whom haue you your ordre of pledynge

For ye neuer can haue none intellygence

But by the meane of myn informynge

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