That †is the cause, the very trouth to say,
That they may not, by no way of resoun,
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Be put to no such occupacioun.'
'Madame,' quod I, 'with al my hool servyse
I thank you now, in my most humble wyse.
For now I am acértainèd throughly
Of every thing I désired to know.'
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'I am right glad that I have said, sothly,