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To speke hir harm; and if they on hir lye,
Y-wis, hem-self sholde han the vilanye.
4. O ye [Herines], Nightes doughtren three,
That endelees compleynen ever in pyne,
Megera, Alete, and eek Thesiphone;
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Thou cruel Mars eek, fader to [Quiryne],
This ilke ferthe book me helpeth fyne,
So that the los of lyf and love y-fere