Shal dy so trew, and with so greet a payne,

Yet shal it do me moche the lesse grevaunce

Than for to live a fals lover, certayne.'

La D. 'Of me get ye right nought, this is no fable,

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I nil to you be neither hard nor strayt;

And right wil not, nor maner customable,

To think ye shulde be sure of my conceyt.

Who secheth sorowe, his be the receyt!

Other counsayl can I not fele nor see,