Bringeth myn hart †to joye and [greet] gladnesse;

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This prevey thought alayeth myne hevinesse.

And what I thinke, or where to be, no man

In all this erth can tell, y-wis, but I:

And eke there nis no swallow swift, ne swan

So wight of wing, ne half [so] yern can fly;

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For I can been, and that right sodenly,

In heven, in helle, in paradise, and here,