and walwinge the see, [medleth the hete], that is to seyn,
the boyling up from the botme; the wawes, that whylom weren
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[clere as glas] and lyke to the faire clere dayes, [withstande] anon
the sightes of men by the filthe and ordure that is resolved.
And the fletinge streem, that [royleth] doun dyversly fro heye
mountaignes, is arested and resisted ofte tyme by the encountringe
of a stoon that is departed and fallen from som roche.
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And for-thy, yif thou wolt loken and demen sooth with cleer