†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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