But Grekes seyn, Pictagoras,
That he the firste finder was
Of the art; Aurora telleth so,
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But therof no fors, of hem two.
Algates songes thus I made
Of my feling, myn herte to glade;
And lo! this was [the] alther-firste,
I not wher [that] hit were the werste.—
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