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And of the puple, as semeth me.

'No good man oughte it to refuse,

Ne oughte him therof to excuse,

Be wrooth or blythe who-so be;

For I wol speke, and telle it thee,

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Al shulde I dye, and be put doun,

As was seynt Poul, in derk prisoun;

Or be exiled in this caas