[Hem of Athenes, that they mote him yiven]
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Fro yere to yere her owne children dere
For to be slayn, as ye shul after here.
This Minos hath a [monstre], a wikked beste,
That was so cruel that, without areste,
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Whan that a man was broght in his presence,
He wolde him ete, ther helpeth no defence.
And [every thridde yeer], with-outen doute,