That had be sick or melancolious,
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It was so very good and vertuous.
And with gret reverence they †enclyned low
[Un]to the tree, so sote and fair of hew;
And after that, within a litel throw,
†Bigonne they to sing and daunce of-new;
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Some song of love, some playning of untrew,
Environing the tree that stood upright;