I noot, y-wis; but god, thou wost!'
For more cleer entendement
Nadde he me never yit y-sent.
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And than thoughte I on [Marcian],
And eek on [Anteclaudian],
That sooth was hir descripcioun
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Of al the hevenes regioun,
As fer as that I saw the preve;