I drede your wrath to disserve.

Lever me were, that knyves kerve

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My body shulde in pecis smalle,

Than in any wyse it shulde falle

That ye wratthed shulde been with me.'

Sey boldely thy wille,' quod he,

I nil be wroth, if that I may,

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For nought that thou shalt to me say.'