Why ne hadde I swich on with my soule y-bought,

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Ye, or the leeste Ioye that was there?

A-wey, thou foule daunger and thou fere,

And lat hem in this hevene blisse dwelle,

That is so heygh, that al ne can I telle!

190. But sooth is, though I can not tellen al,

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As can myn auctor, of his excellence,

Yet have I seyd, and, god to-forn, I shal