As for to fynde a plesaunce but barayn,

Whan it shal cost so dere, the first assay.'

Lam. 'Ye have no cause to doute of this matere,

Nor you to meve with no such fantasyes

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To put me ferre al-out, as a straungere;

For your goodnesse can think and wel avyse,

That I have made a prefe in every wyse

By which my trouth sheweth open evidence;

My long abyding and my trew servyse