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And to rejoice it shal ye never attayn.

Whan ye abyde good hope, to make you fayn,

Ye shal be founde asotted in dotage;

And in the ende, ye shal know for certayn,

That hope shal pay the wrecches for their wage!'

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Lam. 'Ye say as falleth most for your plesaunce,

And your power is greet; al this I see;

But hope shal never out of my rémembraunce,