Wex sodeynly most subget un-to love.

34. For-thy ensample taketh of this man,

Ye wyse, proude, and worthy folkes alle,

To scornen Love, which that so sone can

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The freedom of your hertes to him thralle;

For ever it was, and ever it shal bifalle,

That Love is he that alle thing may binde;

For may no man for-do the lawe of kinde.

35. That this be sooth, [hath preved] and doth yet;