And was miself the lasse aschamed,
Or forto lese or forto winne
In the meschief that I was inne:
And thus I lay in hope of grace.
And whan thei comen to the place
P. iii. 367
Wher Venus stod and I was falle,
These olde men, with o vois alle
To Venus preiden for my sake.
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