Til that the hote sonne gan to weste.

Hir gilte heres with a golden threde

Y-bounden were, untressed as she lay,

And naked fro the breste unto the hede

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Men might hir see; and, sothly for to say,

The remenant wel kevered to my pay

Right with a subtil kerchef of Valence,

Ther was no thikker cloth of no defence.

The place yaf a thousand savours swote,