Help with pipers journey

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A bit confused someone help me in plain English please

This is the lace border part.
Work Row 1 of lace border pattern. Cont in lace pattern as est, using up 1 st from shawl body every RS row, until 2 shawl body sts rem, end after a WS row. Next row dec row: (RS) K17, skp the last border st with the first body st on needle. Next row: Knit. Rep last two rows one more time.