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,