53. Lo, this request is not but skile, y-wis,
Ne doute of reson, pardee, is ther noon.
I sette the worste that ye dredden this,
Men wolden wondren seen him come or goon:
Ther-ayeins answere I thus a-noon,
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That every wight, but he be fool of kinde,
Wol deme it love of freendship in his minde.
54. What? who wol deme, though he see a man
To temple go, that he the images eteth?