For there was eke the cruell adversair,

The lovers fo, that cleped is Dispair,

Which unto me spak angrely and fell,

And said, my lady me deceiven shall:

'Trowest thow,' quod she, 'that all that she did tell,

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Is true? Nay, nay, but under hony gall!

Thy birth and †hers, [they] be nothing egall:

Cast of thyn hart, for all her wordes whyte,

For in good faith she lovith thee but a lyte.