For this nis not, certeyn, the nexte wyse

To winnen love, as techen us the wyse,

To walwe and wepe as [Niobe] the quene,

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Whos teres yet in marbel been y-sene.

101. Lat be thy weping and thy drerinesse,

And lat us lissen wo with other speche;

So may thy woful tyme seme lesse.

Delyte not in wo thy wo to seche,

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