Everiche man shulde be seke,

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And though they dye, they set not a leke.

After, whan they the gold have take,

Ful litel care for hem they make.

They wolde that fourty were seke at onis,

Ye, two hundred, in flesh and bonis,

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And yit two thousand, as I gesse,

For to encresen her richesse.