grace, thy service to beginne. She is worthy the thank of this
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grace, for she was the yever. Al the thoughtes, besy doinges,
and plesaunce in thy might and in thy wordes that thou canst
devyse, ben but right litel in quytinge of thy dette; had she not
ben, suche thing hadde not ben studyed. So al these maters
kyndly drawen hom-ward to this Margaryte-perle, for from thence
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were they borowed; al is hoolly her to wyte, the love that thou
havest; and thus quytest thou thy dette, in that thou stedfastly