That Ialousye, allas! that wikked [wivere],
Thus causelees is cropen in-to yow;
The harm of which I wolde fayn delivere!
[Allas! that he,] al hool, or of him slivere,
Shuld have his refut in so digne a place,
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Ther Iove him sone out of your herte arace!
146. But O, thou Iove, O auctor of nature,
Is this an honour to thy deitee,
That folk ungiltif suffren here iniure,