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To wryte of hem that been in love forsworn,
And eek [to haste me in my legende],
Which to performe god me grace sende,
Therfor I passe shortly in this wyse;
Ye han wel herd of Theseus devyse
2460
In the betraising of fair Adriane,
That of her pite kepte him from his bane.
At shorte wordes, right so Demophon