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And, when they were the herber passed by,

I drest me forth, and happed to mete anon

Right a fair lady, I you ensure;

And she cam ryding by herself aloon,

Al in whyte, with semblance ful demure.

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I salued her, and bad good aventure

†Might her befall, as I coud most humbly;

And she answered, 'My doughter, gramercy!'