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How ofte he knocked at her klycked gate.

What sholde I tell more of his rebaudrye?

I was ashamed so to here hym prate:

He had no pleasure but in harlotrye.

Ay, quod he, in the deuylles date,

What arte thou? I sawe thé nowe but late.

Forsothe, quod I, in this courte I dwell nowe.

Welcome, quod Ryote, I make God auowe.[307]

RYOTE.