To him that never tasted bitternesse?

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Ne no man may be inly glad, I trowe,

That never was in sorwe or som distresse;

Eek whyt by blak, by shame eek worthinesse,

Ech set by other, more for other semeth;

As men may see; and so the wyse it demeth.

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93. Sith thus of two contraries is a lore,

I, that have in love so ofte assayed