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Al blak he ware, and no devyce but playn.
Me thought by him, as my wit coud suffyse,
His hert was no-thing in his own demeyn.
To feste hem al he did his diligence,
And wel he couth, right as it semed me.
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But evermore, whan he was in presence,
His chere was don; it wold non other be.
His scole-maister had suche auctoritè