Ne avauntour, seyth men, certein, is he noon;

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To wys is he to do so gret a vyce;

Ne als I nel him never so cheryce,

That he may make avaunt, by Iuste cause;

He shal me never binde in swiche a clause.

105. Now set a cas, the hardest is, y-wis,

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Men mighten deme that he loveth me:

What dishonour were it un-to me, this?