['Nay, soothly, lady,' quod this Eneas];
'But, by thy beaute, as hit thinketh me,
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Thou mightest never erthely womman be,
But [Phebus suster] artow, as I gesse.
And, if so be that thou be a goddesse,
Have mercy on our labour and our wo.'
'I nam no goddes, soothly,' quod she tho;
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'For maidens walken in this contree here,