Though never more thing ye me bi-hete!'

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78. This wordes and ful manye an-other to

He spak, and called ever in his compleynte

Hir name, for to tellen hir his wo,

Til neigh that he in salte teres dreynte.

Al was for nought, she herde nought his pleynte;

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And whan that he bithoughte on that folye,

A thousand fold his wo gan multiplye.