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?"