For what word that hem prikke or byteth,
In that word noon of hem delyteth,
Al were it gospel, the evangyle,
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That wolde reprove hem of hir gyle,
For they are cruel and hauteyn.
And this thing wot I wel, certeyn,
If I speke ought to peire hir loos,
Your court shal not so wel be cloos,
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