We might have blame redily;
For hadde he wist of our malyce,
He hadde him kept, but he were nyce.
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'Another is this, that, if so falle
That ther be oon among us alle
That doth a good turn, out of drede,
We seyn it is our alder dede.
Ye, sikerly, though he it feyned,
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