That, as of light the somer-sonne shene
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Passeth the sterre, right so over mesure
She fairer was than any creature.
And in a launde, upon an hille of floures,
Was set this noble goddesse Nature;
Of braunches were hir halles and hir boures,
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Y-wrought after hir craft and hir mesure;
Ne ther nas foul that cometh of engendrure,