To have a sely mayde thus betrayed!
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To god,' quod she, 'preye I, and ofte have prayed,
[That hit be now the grettest prys of alle],
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And moste honour that ever yow shal befalle!
And whan thyn olde auncestres peynted be,
In which men may hir worthinesse see,
Than, preye I god, thou peynted be also,
That folk may reden, for-by as they go,