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No respect having what was best to doon;

Till right anon, beholding here and there,

I spied a frend of myne, and that full soon,

A gentilwoman, was the chamberer

Unto the quene, that hote, as ye shall here,

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Philobone, that lovëd all her life:

Whan she me sey, she led me furth as blyfe;

And me demaunded how and in what wise