And never false yow, but I mete,
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I nil, as wis god helpe me so!"
'And whan I had my tale y-do,
God wot, she acounted nat a stree
Of al my tale, so thoghte me.
To telle shortly as hit is,
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Trewly hir answere, hit was this;
I can not now wel counterfete