The bilder ook, and eek the hardy asshe;

The piler elm, the cofre unto careyne;

The boxtree piper; holm to whippes lasshe;

The sayling firr; the cipres, deth to pleyne;

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The sheter ew, the asp for shaftes pleyne;

The olyve of pees, and eek the drunken vyne,

The victor palm, the laurer to devyne.

A garden saw I, ful of blosmy bowes,

Upon a river, in a grene mede,