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With y and finger, and with smyles soft,

And low to cough, and alway for to shon,

For dred of spyes, for to winken oft:

But secretly to bring a sigh a-loft,

And eke beware of over-moch resort;

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For that, paraventure, spilleth al thy sport.

The twelfth statut remember to observe:

For al the pain thow hast for love and wo,