Considered al thing, it may not be;

And why, [for shame]; and it were eek to sone

To graunten him so greet a libertee.

'For playnly hir entente,' as seyde she,

Was for to love him unwist, if she mighte,

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And guerdon him with no-thing but with sighte.'

186. But Pandarus thoughte, 'it shal not be so,

If that I may; this nyce opinioun

Shal not be holden fully yeres two.'