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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