That al hir wit was set, by the rode,

Withoute malice, upon gladnesse;

Therto I saw never yet a lesse

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Harmful, than she was in doing.

I sey nat that she ne had knowing

What was harm; or elles she

Had coud no good, so thinketh me.

'And trewly, for to speke of trouthe,

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