And not awey with stormes bete.

For on that other syde I sey

Of this hille, [that northward lay],

How hit was writen ful of names

Of folk that hadden grete fames

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Of olde tyme, and yit they were

As fresshe as men had writen hem there

The selve day right, or that houre

That I upon hem gan to poure.