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Yit nevertheles, quhat-ever men deme or say
In scornful langage of thy brukilnes,
I sall excuse, als far-furth as I may,
Thy womanheid, thy wisdom, and fairnes,
The quilk Fortoun hes put to sic distres
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As hir pleisit, and na-thing throw the gilt
Of thee, throw wikkit langage to be spilt.
This fair lady, in this wys destitut