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Assured Maner, Youthe, and Honestee,
Wisdom, Estaat, [and] Dreed, and Governaunce,
Confedred bothe by bonde and alliaunce.
A compleynt hadde I, writen, in myn hond,
For to have put to Pite as a bille,
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But whan I al this companye ther fond,
That rather wolden al my cause spille
Than do me help, I held my pleynte stille;