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Have lost, and spent also in veyn,

In his servyse, withoute socour,

Body and soule, good, and tresour,

Wit, and strengthe, and eek richesse,

Of which they hadde never redresse.'

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Thus taught and preched hath Resoun,

But Love spilte hir sermoun,

That was so imped in my thought,