How may ye suffre, allas! it be repeled?
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43. What I may doon, I shal, whyl I may dure
On lyve in torment and in cruel peyne,
This infortune or this disaventure,
Allone as I was born, y-wis, compleyne;
Ne never wil I seen it shyne or reyne;
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But ende I wil, as [Edippe], in derknesse
My sorwful lyf, and dyen in distresse.