That I, unware, am casten in your chayne;
And sith so is, as Fortune list ordayne,
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Al my welfare is in your handes falle,
In eschewing of more mischévous payn;
Who sonest dyeth, his care is leest of alle.'
La D. 'This sicknesse is right esy to endure,
But fewe people it causeth for to dy;
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But what they mene, I know it very sure,