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'And if men wolde ther-geyn appose
The naked text, and lete the glose,
It mighte sone assoiled be;
For men may wel the sothe see,
That, parde, they mighte axe a thing
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Pleynly forth, without begging.
For they weren goddis herdis dere,
And cure of soules hadden here,