Of my pore lyfe, ful of adversitè!'
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Fro thens he went, but whider wist I nought,
Nor to what part he drow, in sothfastnesse;
But he no more was in his ladies thought,
For to the daunce anon she gan her dresse.
And afterward, oon tolde me thus expresse,
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He rente his heer, for anguissh and for payne,
And in him-self took so gret hevinesse