[Thou yiver of the formes], that hast wroght
The faire world, and bare hit in thy thoght
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Eternally, or thou thy werk began,
Why madest thou, unto the slaundre of man,
Or—al be that hit was not thy doing,
[As for that fyn] to make swiche a thing—
Why suffrest thou that Tereus was bore,
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That is in love so fals and so forswore,