To overtaken hym and talke to hym,
Er thei to towne coome.
And whan I seigh this, I sojourned noght,
But shoop me to renne,
And suwed that Samaritan
That was so ful of pité,
And graunted hym to ben his groom.
"Graunt mercy!" he seide;
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"Ac thi frend and thi felawe," quod he,