Ne never hem cherish, but ever hem byte.

And comunly suche ben comen

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Of pore people, and of hem begete,

That this perfeccion han y-nomen;

Hir †faders ryde not but on hir fete,

And travaylen sore for that they ete,

In povert liveth, yonge and old;

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Hir †faders suffreth drought and wete,