Incipit Legenda Phillis.
By preve as wel as by auctoritee,
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[That wikked fruit cometh of a wikked tree],
That may ye finde, if that it lyketh yow.
But for this ende I speke this as now,
To telle you of false [Demophon].
In love a falser herde I never non,
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[But-if hit were] his fader Theseus.