Truly to be my woundes remedy;

Her gentilness may not infected be

With dobleness, thus trust I till I dy.'

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So cast I void Dispaires company,

And taken Hope to councell and to frend.

'Ye, kepe that wele,' quod Philobone, 'in mind.'

And there besyde, within a bay-window,

Stood oon in grene, full large of brede and length,

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