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That they needed; and then, ful lustily,
Even by the herber where I was sitting,
They passed al, so plesantly singing,
That it would have comfórted any wight;
But then I sy a passing wonder sight:—
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For then the nightingale, that al the day
Had in the laurer sete, and did her might
The hool servyse to sing longing to May,