Dame Pacience sitting ther I fond

With face pale, upon an hille of sond;

And alder-next, within and eek with-oute,

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Behest and Art, and of hir folke a route.

Within the temple, of syghes hote as fyr

I herde a swogh that gan aboute renne;

Which syghes were engendred with desyr,

That maden every auter for to brenne

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