O sterne, O cruel fader that I was!
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How mighte I have in that so hard an herte?
Allas! I ne hadde y-brought hir [in hir sherte]!
For sorwe of which I wol not live to morwe,
But-if ye lordes rewe up-on my sorwe.
15. For, by that cause [I say no tyme] er now
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Hir to delivere, I holden have my pees;
But now or never, if that it lyke yow,