hand softely upon my brest, and seide: 'Here nis no peril,' quod

she; 'he is fallen into a [litargie], whiche that is a comune sykenes

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to hertes that ben deceived. He hath a litel foryeten him-self,

but certes he shal lightly remembren him-self, yif so be that he

hath knowen me or now; and that he may so don, I wil wypen a

litel his eyen, that ben derked by the cloude of mortal thinges.'

Thise wordes seide she, and with the lappe of hir garment, [y-plyted]

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in a frounce, she dryede myn eyen, that weren fulle of the wawes