With herte soor wel oughte I to bewayle,

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That ever derk in torment, night by night,

Toward my deeth with wind in stere I sayle;

For which [the tenthe night] if that I fayle

The gyding of thy bemes brighte an houre,

My ship and me Caribdis wol devoure.'

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93. This song when he thus songen hadde, sone

He fil ayein in-to his sykes olde;