While it yow list, of wele and wo my welle!

191. For which to yow, with dredful herte trewe,

I wryte, as he that sorwe dryfth to wryte,

My wo, that every houre encreseth newe,

Compleyninge as I dar or can endyte.

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And that defaced is, that may ye wyte

[The teres], which that fro myn eyen reyne,

That wolde speke, if that they coude, and pleyne.

192. Yow first biseche I, that your eyen clere