But ye lovers, that lye in any drede,

Fleëth, lest wikked tonges yow espye;

Lo! yond the sonne, the candel of Ielosye!

With teres blewe, and with a wounded herte

Taketh your leve; and, with seynt Iohn to borow,

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Apeseth somwhat of your sorowes smerte,

Tyme cometh eft, that cese shal your sorow;

The glade night is worth an hevy morow!'—

(Seynte Valentyne! a foul thus herde I singe