I nil foryete hir never-mo.'

'Now, goode sir,' quod I [right] tho,

Ye han wel told me her-before.

It is no need reherse hit more

How ye sawe hir first, and where;

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But wolde ye telle me the manere,

To hir which was your firste speche—

Therof I wolde yow be-seche—

And how she knewe first your thoght,