Tel on, let see, and make no tarying.'
'Abyd,' quod I, 'ye been a hasty oon,
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I let you wite it is no litel thing.
But, for bicause ye have a greet longing
In your desyr, this proces for to here,
I shal you tel the playn of this matere.—
It happed thus, that, in an after-noon,
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My felawship and I, by oon assent,