Al this seye I [by] Eneas
And Dido, and hir nyce lest,
That lovede al to sone a [gest];
Therfor I wol seye a proverbe,
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That '[he that fully knoweth therbe]
May saufly leye hit to his yë';
Withoute dreed, this is no lye.
But let us speke of Eneas,
How he betrayed hir, allas!