BOOK III.

Prose I.

Iam cantum illa finierat.

By this she hadde ended hir song, whan the sweetnesse of hir

ditee hadde thorugh-perced me that was desirous of herkninge,

and I astoned hadde yit [streighte] myn eres, that is to seyn, to

herkne the bet what she wolde seye; so that a litel here-after I

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seyde thus: 'O thou that art sovereyn comfort of anguissous

corages, [so] thou hast remounted and norisshed me with the