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And Bachus, god of wyn, sat hir besyde,

And Ceres next, that doth of hunger bote;

And, as I seide, amiddes lay Cipryde,

To whom on knees two yonge folkes cryde

To ben hir help; but thus I leet hir lye,

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And ferther in the temple I gan espye

That, in dispyte of Diane the chaste,

Ful many a bowe y-broke heng on the wal