"Mak room," quod she, "my lady is coming!"

With that anon I saw Perséveraunce,

How she held up the tapet in her hand.

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I saw also, in right good ordinaunce,

This greet lady within the tapet stand,

Coming outward, I wol ye understand;

And after her a noble company,

I coud nat tel the nombre sikerly.

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