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Fro bough to bough, and, as him list, he eet

Here and there, of buddes and floures sweet.

And to the herber-sydë was joining

This fairë tree, of which I have you told;

And, at the last, the brid began to sing,

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Whan he had eten what he etë wold,

So passing sweetly, that, by manifold,

It was more plesaunt than I coud devyse;