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,