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Into Paradyse, where my desyr

Was for to be, and no ferther [to] passe

As for that day, and on the sotë gras

I sat me doun; for, as for myn entent,

The birdës song was more convenient,

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And more plesaunt to me, by many fold,

Than mete or drink, or any other thing;

Thereto the herber was so fresh and cold,