115. How bisy, if I love, eek moste I be

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To plesen hem that Iangle of love, and demen,

And coye hem, that they sey non harm of me?

For though ther be no cause, yet hem semen

Al be for harm that folk hir freendes [quemen];

And who may stoppen every wikked tonge,

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Or soun of belles whyl that they be ronge?'

116. And after that, hir thought bigan to clere,