As I might see hit with myn yë:
For-why this halle, of whiche I rede
Was woxe on [highte], lengthe and brede,
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Wel more, by a thousand del,
Than hit was erst, that saugh I wel.
Tho saugh I, on a piler by,
Of yren wroght ful sternely,
The grete poete, daun [Lucan],
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