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For thou of love hast lost thy tast, I gesse,

As seek man hath of swete and bitternesse.

But natheles, al-though that thou be dulle,

Yit that thou canst not do, yit mayst thou see;

For many a man that may not stonde a pulle,

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Yit lyketh him at the wrastling for to be,

And demeth yit wher he do bet or he;

And if thou haddest cunning for tendyte,