To flyen y-ferë and †togider go
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Wher-as hem liste, abouten enviroun,
As they of kynde have inclinacoun,
And as Nature, emperesse and gyde,
Of every thing, liste to provyde;
But man aloon, alas! the harde stounde!
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Ful cruelly, by kyndes ordinaunce,
Constrayned is, and by statut bounde,