'Allas,' quod he, 'thus foul a wrecchednesse
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Why suffre ich it, why nil ich it redresse?
Were it not bet at ones for to dye
Than ever-more in langour thus to drye?
7. Why nil I make at ones riche and pore
To have y-nough to done, er that she go?
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Why nil I bringe al Troye upon a rore?
Why nil I sleen this Diomede also?