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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