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'O, welawey that I was born!

[For through yow is my name lorn],

And alle myn actes red and songe

Over al this lond, on every tonge.

[O wikke Fame]! for ther nis

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Nothing so swift, lo, as she is!

O, sooth is, [every thing is wist],

Though hit be kevered with the mist.