For sothe as yet, by no manere wey.'
Now sin it may non other wyse betyde,'
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Quod tho Nature, 'here is no more to sey;
Than wolde I that these foules were a-wey
Ech with his make, for tarying lenger here'—
And seyde hem thus, as ye shul after here.
To you speke I, ye tercelets,' quod Nature,
660
'Beth of good herte and serveth, alle three;