If I did wel, yet felte I no plesaunce;

It caused neither joy nor hevinesse.

For whan she dyed, that was my good maistresse,

Al my welfare than made the same purchas;

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The deeth hath set my boundes, of witnes,

Which for no-thing myn hert shal never pas.'

In this gret thought, sore troubled in my mynde,

Aloon thus rood I al the morow-tyde,

Til at the last it happed me to fynde