And Tisbe hight the maid, [Naso] seith thus;
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And thus by [report] was hir name [y-shove]
That, [as they wexe in age, wex hir love];
And certein, as by reson of hir age,
Ther mighte have been bitwix hem mariage,
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[But that hir fadres nolde hit nat assente];
And bothe in love y-lyke sore they brente,
That noon of alle hir frendes mighte hit lette