My felawes be coming; yonder they be."

"Is it [a] jape, or say ye sooth?" quod she.

"In jape? nay, nay; I say you for certain;

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See how they come togider, twain and twain!"

"Ye say ful sooth," quod she, "that is no nay;

I see coming a goodly company."

"They been such folk," quod I, "I dar wel say,

That list to love; thinke it ful verily.

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