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Which ye may see [here] ryding al before,
That in hir tyme did many a noble dede,
And, for their worthines, ful oft have bore
The crowne of laurer-leves on their hede,
As ye may in your old[ë] bokes rede;
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And how that he, that was a conquerour,
Had by laurer alway his most honour.
And tho that bere boughës in their hond