Your hewe is witnesse in this thing,' she seid:
'If ye were secret, [ye] might know,' quod she,
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'Curteise and kind, all this shuld be allayed:
And now, myn herte! all that I have misseid,
I shall amend, and set your harte in ese.'
'That word it is,' quod I, 'that doth me plese.'
'But this I charge, that ye the statuts kepe,
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And breke thaim not for sloth nor ignoraunce.'