*Swich vois, right as [yow list], to laughe or pleyne.

*Be ye my gyde and lady sovereyne;

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*As to myn erthly god, to yow I calle,

*Bothe in this werke and in my sorwes alle.

[But wherfor that I spak, to give credence]

To olde stories, and doon hem reverence,

And that men mosten more thing beleve

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Then men may [seen at eye] or elles preve?