Or wonder erly, lest men hit espyde;
And longe tyme they wroghte in this manere
Til on a day, whan [Phebus] gan to clere,
[Aurora] with the stremes of hir hete
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Had dryed up the dew of herbes wete;
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Unto this clifte, as it was wont to be,
Com Pyramus, and after com Tisbe,
And plighten trouthe fully in hir fey