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With stern visage, and seid, 'What doth this old,

Thus fer y-stope in yeres, come so late

Unto the court?' 'For-soth, my liege,' quod I,

'An hundred tyme I have ben at the gate

Afore this tyme, yit coud I never espy

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Of myn acqueyntaunce any with mine y;

And shamefastnes away me gan to chace;

But now I me submit unto your grace.'