†Of holinesse, of regnes, of victories,
†Of love, of hate, of other sundry thinges,
†Of whiche I may not maken rehersinges.
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†[And if that olde bokes were a-weye],
†Y-loren were of [remembraunce] the keye.
[Wel oghte us] than honouren and beleve
These bokes, [ther] we han non other preve.
And as for me, thogh that I [can but lyte],
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