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The sooth; but trewely, as I gesse,
I holdë hit be a siknesse
That I have suffred this eight yere,
And yet my bote is never the nere;
For ther is phisicien but oon,
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That may me hele; but that is doon.
Passe we over until eft;
That wil not be, moot nede be left;