And nevertheles hast set thy wit—

Although that in thy hede ful [lyte] is—

To make bokes, songes, dytees,

In ryme, or elles in [cadence],

As thou best canst, in reverence

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Of Love, and of his servants eke,

That have his servise soght, and seke;

And peynest thee to preyse his art,

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