I wolde go som whider to assay
If that I might a nightingalë here;
For yet had I non herd of al this yere,
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And hit was tho the thridde night of May.
And than, anon as I the day espyde,
No lenger wolde I in my bedde abyde,
But unto a wode, that was faste by,
I wente forth alone, boldely,
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