The statuts truly, all, aftir this day.'

O god, thought I, hard is to make this oth!

But to my pouer shall I thaim observe;

In all this world nas mater half so loth,

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To swere for all; for though my body sterve,

I have no might the hole for to reserve.

But herkin now the cace how it befell:

After my oth was mad, the trouth to tell,

I turned leves, loking on this boke,