As shulde a maister of divyne;

For how that I me pover feyne,

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Yit alle pore folk I disdeyne.

'I love bet the acqueyntaunce

Ten tymes, of the king of Fraunce,

Than of pore man of mylde mode,

Though that his soule be also gode.

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For whan I see beggers quaking,