"I have be preest and parson

Passynge thritty wynter,

And yet can I neyther solne ne synge,

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Ne seintes lyves rede;

[But I kan fynden in a feld,]

Or in a furlang, an hare,

Bettre than in Beatus vir,

Or in Beati omnes,

Construe oon clause wel