This Troilus, with-oute wordes mo,

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Un-to his chaumbre spedde him faste allone,

But-if it were a man of his or two,

The whiche he bad out faste for to go,

By-cause he wolde slepen, as he seyde,

And hastely up-on his bed him leyde.

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[33]. And as in winter leves been biraft,

Eche after other, til the tree be bare,