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†Had hem betrayed with his sophistrye.

†This was hir song—'the fouler we defye!'

(B. 139)

Somme songen [layes] on the braunches clere

Of love and [May], that Ioye hit was to here,

In worship and in preysing of hir make,

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And of the newe blisful someres sake,

(B. 145)