But [why] than is hir gladnesse at my wo?

It is hir wone plesaunce for to take,

To seen hir servaunts dyen for hir sake!

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But certes, than is al my wonderinge,

Sithen she is the fayrest creature

As to my dome, that ever was livinge,

The benignest and beste eek that nature

Hath wrought or shal, whyl that the world may dure,

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