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For with your eyen the letters written be,

By which I am defyed and put a-fer.

Your plesaunt look, my verray lode-sterre,

Was made heraud of thilk same défyaunce

Which utterly behight me to forbarre

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My faithful trust and al myn affyaunce.'

La Dame. 'To live in wo he hath gret fantasy

And of his hert also hath slipper holde,