For to refresh their greet unkindly hete.

The lady of the Leef then gan to pray

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Her of the Flour, (for so to my seeming

They should[ë] be, as by their [quaint] array),

To soupe with her; and eek, for any thing,

That she should with her al her people bring.

And she ayein, in right goodly manere,

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Thanketh her of her most freendly chere,