Had ever in this wyde worlde y-be;
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†And trewe of love thise women were echoon.
†Now whether was that a wonder thing or noon,
†That, right anoon as that they gonne espye
†This flour, which that I clepe the dayesye,
†Ful sodeinly they stinten alle at ones,
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And kneled doun, as it were [for the nones],
*And songen with o vois, 'Hele and honour