Lest out of lose any word asterte
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In this metre, to make it seme lame;
Chaucer is deed, that hadde suche a name
Of fair making, that [was], withoute wene,
Fairest in our tonge, as the laurer grene.
We may assaye for to counterfete
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His gaye style, but it wil not be;
The welle is drye, with the licour swete,