With that bithought I me, that I

Hadde a felowe faste by,

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Trewe and siker, curteys, and hend,

And he was called by name a Freend;

A trewer felowe was no-wher noon.

In haste to him I wente anoon,

And to him al my wo I tolde,

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Fro him right nought I wold withholde.