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.