It is no blame unto hir womanheed
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Though swich a wrecche as I be for hir deed;
[And] yet alwey two thinges doon me dyë,
That is to seyn, hir beutee and myn yë.
So that, algates, she is the verray rote
Of my disese, and of my dethe also;
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For with oon word she mighte be my bote,
If that she vouched sauf for to do so.