But-if ye vouche-sauf to yive hit me,
As I have seid, [of shames deeth I deye]!
And mercy, lady! I can nat elles seye!'
A seemly knight was Theseus to see,
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And yong, but of yeer and three;
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But who-so hadde y-seyn his countenaunce,
He wolde have wept, for routhe of his penaunce;
For which this Adriane in this manere