If that I lye, in certayn I shal fonde

Distorben him, and plukke him by the sleve,

Makinge his sort, and [beren him on honde],

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He hath not wel the goddes understonde.

For goddes speken in [amphibologyes],

And, for a sooth, they tellen twenty lyes.

202. Eek drede fond first goddes, I suppose,

Thus shal I seyn, and that his cowarde herte

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