goddes love, no man wonder why or how this question come to
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my mynde. For my greet lusty desyr was of this lady to ben
enfourmed, my leudenesse to amende. Certes, I knowe not
other mennes wittes, what I shulde aske, or in answere what
I shulde saye; I am so leude my-selfe, that mokel more lerninge
yet me behoveth. I have mad therfore as I coude, but not
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sufficiently as I wolde, and as mater yave me sentence; for my
dul wit is hindred by †stepmoder of foryeting and with cloude