That with my modir have be privee!

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Yit wolde I swere, for sikirnesse,

The pole of helle to my witnesse,

Now drinke I not this yeer clarree,

If that I lye, or forsworn be!

(For of the goddes the usage is,

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That who-so him forswereth amis,

Shal that yeer drinke no clarree).