He outher is envyous, or right nyce,

Or is unmighty, for his shrewednesse,

To loven; for swich maner folk, I gesse,

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Defamen love, as no-thing of him knowe;

They speken, but they bente never [his bowe].

124. What is the sonne wers, of kinde righte,

Though that a man, for feblesse of his yën,

May nought endure on it to see for brighte?

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