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‘I know hem not,’ seyde the tanner,
‘with hem Y hafe lytyll to don;
Wolde he neuer bey of me
clot-lether to clowt with schon.’
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Howre kyng seyde, Y loffe the well,
of on thyng I þe praye;
Thow hast harde hes servantes speke,
what wolde þey saye?