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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?