And whan this tree suche greetnesse hath caught as I have
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rehersed, the braunches than, that the frute shulde forth-bringe,
speche must they be nedes, in voice of prayer in complayning
wyse used.'
'Out! alas!' quod I tho, 'he is soroufully wounded that
hydeth his speche, and spareth his complayntes to make! What
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shal I speke the care? But payne, even lyk to helle, sore hath
me assayled, and so ferforth in payne me thronge, that I leve my