That yvel is ful of curtesye

That [lauhwith] in his maladye;

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For ever of love the siknesse

Is meynd with swete and bitternesse.

The sore of love is merveilous;

For now the lover [is] Ioyous,

Now can he pleyne, now can he grone,

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Now can he singen, now maken mone.