And to his cosin Shame seyde:
Shame,' he seide, 'in sothfastnesse,
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To me it is gret hevinesse,
That the noyse so fer is go,
And the sclaundre of us two.
But sith that it is [so] bifalle,
We may it not ageyn [do] calle,
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Whan onis sprongen is a fame.