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3. For I, that god of Loves servaunts serve,

[Ne dar] to Love, for myn unlyklinesse,

Preyen for speed, al sholde I therfor sterve,

So fer am I fro his help in derknesse;

But nathelees, if this may doon gladnesse

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To any lover, and his cause avayle,

[Have he my thank], and myn be this travayle!

4. But ye loveres, that bathen in gladnesse,