With teres, whiche, as of a welle

The stremes, from hire yhen felle; 840

So as sche mihte and evere in on

Sche clepede upon Demephon,

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And seide, ‘Helas, thou slowe wiht,

Wher was ther evere such a knyht,

That so thurgh his ungentilesce

Of Slowthe and of foryetelnesse

Ayein his trowthe brak his stevene?’