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.