And that ye coude wel your lady serve,
I trowe eek wel, hir thank for to deserve.
140. But as to speke of love, y-wis,' she seyde,
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'I hadde a lord, [to whom I wedded was],
The whos myn herte al was, til that he deyde;
And other love, as helpe me now Pallas,
Ther in myn herte nis, ne never was.
And that ye been of noble and heigh kinrede,
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