[Thourgh-girt with many a wyd and blody wounde].

In every cas I wol a freend be founde.

And if thee list here sterven as a wrecche,

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A-dieu, [the devel spede him that it recche]!'

91. This Troilus gan with tho wordes quiken,

And seyde, 'freend, graunt mercy, ich assente;

But certaynly thou mayst not me so priken,

Ne peyne noon ne may me so tormente,

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