To such folk shulde a prince him yive,

That wolde his lyf in honour live.

And if they be not as they seme,

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That serven thus the world to queme,

There wolde I dwelle, to disceyve

The folk, for they shal not perceyve.

'But I ne speke in no such wyse,

That men shulde humble abit dispyse,

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