But where as ye me hastily desyre

To been to love, me think, ye be not wyse.

Cese of your language! cese, I you requyre!

For he that hath this twenty yere ben here

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May not obtayn; than marveile I that ye

Be now so bold, of love to trete with me.'

'Ah! mercy, hart, my lady and my love,

My rightwyse princesse and my lyves guyde!

Now may I playn to Venus all above,