But prively somtyme yit they mette
By sleighte, and speken som of hir desyr;
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[As, wry the gleed, and hotter is the fyr];
(31)
Forbede a love, and it is ten so wood.
This wal, which that bitwix hem bothe stood,
Was cloven a-two, right fro the toppe adoun,
Of olde tyme of his fundacioun;
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