'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?