Yet loth she was to put it in wryting,

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But nede wol have his cours in every thing.

Soyes en sure, this was her word, certayn,

And thus she wroot, but in a litel space;

There she lovëd, her labour was in vayn,

For he was set al in another place;

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Ful humblely desyring, in that cace,

Som good comfort, her sorow to appese,