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After hir cours, ay whyl they were wrothe.

21. But how this toun com to destruccioun

Ne falleth nought to purpos me to telle;

For it were here a long disgressioun

Fro my matere, and yow to longe dwelle.

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But the [Troyane gestes], as they felle,

In [Omer], or in Dares, or in Dyte,

Who-so that can, may rede hem as they wryte.