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'Now you have had your will,' quoth she,
'I pray, sir knight, will you marry me?'
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The young brave knight to her replyed,
'Thy suit, fair maid, shall not be deny'd.
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'If thou canst answer me questions three,
This very day will I marry thee.'
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'Kind sir, in love, O then,' quoth she,
'Tell me what your [three] questions be.'
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'O what is longer than the way,
Or what is deeper than the sea?
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'Or what is louder than the horn,
Or what is sharper than a thorn?
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'Or what is greener than the grass,
Or what is worse then a woman was?'
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'O love is longer than the way,
And hell is deeper than the sea.
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'And thunder is louder than the horn,
And hunger is sharper than a thorn.
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'And poyson is greener than the grass,
And the Devil is worse than woman was.'