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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