*[I pray to god that faire mot she falle],
*And alle that loven floures, for hir sake!
But natheles, ne wene nat that I make
In preysing of the flour agayn the leef,
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*No more than of the corn agayn the sheef:
[For, as to me, nis lever noon ne lother];
I nam [with-holden] yit with never nother.
Ne I not who serveth leef, ne who the flour;
Wel brouken they hir service or labour;