And this that thou dost, calle it gentilesse,

Compassioun, and felawship, and trist;

[Departe it so], for wyde-where is wist

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How that there is dyversitee requered

Bitwixen thinges lyke, as I have lered.

59. And, that thou knowe I thenke nought ne wene

That this servyse a shame be or Iape,

I have my faire suster Polixene,

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