I have gret wonder, by this lighte,

How that I live, for day ne nighte

I may nat slepe wel nigh noght;

I have so many an ydel thoght

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Purely for defaute of slepe,

That, by my trouthe, I take kepe

Of no-thing, how hit cometh or goth,

Ne me nis no-thing leef nor loth.

Al is y-liche good to me—