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The place wherin I cast me to abyde

Whan that I had no further for to ryde.

And as I went my logging to purvey,

Right sone I herde, but litel me besyde,

In a gardeyn, wher minstrels gan to play.

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With that anon I went me bakker-more;

My-self and I, me thought, we were y-now;

But twayn that were my frendes here-before