His facound toung and termis exquisyte,
Of rhetorik the praktik he micht leir,
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In breif sermone ane pregnant sentence wryte.
Befoir Cupide vailing his cap a lyte,
Speiris the caus of that vocacioun;
And he anon shew his intencioun.
'Lo!' quod Cupide, 'quha will blaspheme the name
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Of his awin god, outhir in word or deid,