And sorwe that I suffred tho
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For hir, and yet she wiste hit noght,
Ne telle hir durste I nat my thoght.
"Allas!" thoghte I, "I can no reed;
And, but I telle hir, I nam but deed;
And if I telle hir, to seye sooth,
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I am a-dred she wol be wrooth;
Allas! what shal I thanne do?"