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hadde freten and dreynt in his [empty] wombe. But natheles
Poliphemus, wood for his blinde visage, yald to Ulixes Ioye by
his sorwful teres; this is to seyn, that Ulixes smoot out the eye of
Poliphemus that stood in his forehed, for which Ulixes hadde Ioye,
whan he say Poliphemus wepinge and blinde.
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[Hercules] is celebrable for his harde travailes; he dauntede the
proude [Centaures], half hors, half man; and he birafte the dispoylinge
fro the cruel [lyoun], that is to seyn, he slowh the lyoun and