Sende her lettres, tokens, broches, ringes—
Now herkneth, how he shal his lady serve!
[Ther-as] he was in peril for to [sterve]
For hunger, and for mischeef in the see,
And desolat, and fled from his contree,
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And al his folk with tempest al to-driven,
She hath her body and eek her reame yiven
In-to his hond, ther-as she mighte have been
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