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yit none newe strondes, to leden marchaundyse in-to dyverse
contrees. Tho weren the cruel clariouns ful hust and ful stille,
ne blood y-shad by egre hate ne hadde nat deyed yit [armures].
[For wher-to] or which woodnesse of enemys wolde first moeven
armes, whan they seyen cruel woundes, ne none medes be of
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blood y-shad?
I wolde that oure tymes sholde torne ayein to the olde
maneres! [But the anguissous] love of havinge brenneth in folk