Al men wol saye, fy on your vassalage!
Thus hath your slouth fro worship you devyded.
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Boëce the clerk, as men may rede and see,
Saith, in his Boke of Consolacioun,
What man desyreth †have of vyne or tree
Plentee of fruit, in the ryping sesoun,
Must ay eschewe to doon oppressioun
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Unto the rote, whyle it is yong and grene;