But to the poynt—Nature held on hir honde

A formel egle, of shap the gentileste

That ever she among hir werkes fonde,

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The most benigne and the goodlieste;

In hir was every vertu at his reste,

So ferforth, that Nature hir-self had blisse

To loke on hir, and ofte hir bek to kisse.

Nature, the vicaire of thalmyghty lorde,

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