Al sholde I deye, I wole hir herte seche;
I shal no more lesen but my speche.'
115. This Diomede, as bokes us declare,
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Was in his nedes prest and corageous;
With sterne voys and mighty limes square,
Hardy, testif, strong, and chevalrous
Of dedes, lyk his fader Tideus.
And som men seyn, he was of tunge large;
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