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Unto the court to seken for socour.
Men knewe him wel, and diden him honour;
For at Athenes duk and lord was he,
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As Theseus his fader hadde y-be,
That in his tyme was of greet renoun,
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No man so greet in al his regioun;
And lyk his fader of face and of stature,