Of other syknesse, lest of him men wende

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That the hote fyr of love him brende.

71. And seyde, he hadde a fever and ferde amis;

But how it was, certayn, can I not seye,

If that his lady understood not this,

Or feyned hir she niste, oon of the tweye;

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But wel I rede that, by no maner weye,

Ne semed it [as] that she of him roughte,