That ilke same night to stele awey,
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And to begyle hir wardeins everichoon,
And forth out of the citee for to goon;
[And, for] the feldes been so brode and wyde,
[For] to mete in o place at o tyde,
They sette mark hir meting sholde be
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[Ther king Ninus was graven, under a tree];
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