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).