Set with saphyrs, as good as coud be thought;

That, wot ye what, if it were thorugh sought,

As I suppose, fro this countrey til Inde,

Another suche it were right fer to finde!

For, wite ye wel, I was right nere that,

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So as I durst, beholding by and by;

Above ther was a riche cloth of estate,

Wrought with the nedle ful straungëly,

Her word thereon; and thus it said trewly,