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To love them welt, for never a dele

They love a man again: For let a man do what he can

Their favour to attain. Yet if a new to them pursue.

Their first true lover than Laboureth for naught, for from her thought

He is a banished man.

��She. I say not nay, but that all day

It is both written and said That woman's faith is, as who saith,

All utterly decayed- But nevertheless, right good witness

In this case might be laid That they love true and continue:

Recoid the Nut-brow?i Maid, Which, when her love came her to prove,

To her to make his moan, Would not de-part, for in her heart

She loved but him alone.

��He. Then between us let us discuss

What was all the manere Between them two we will also

Tell all the fam in jere That she was in. Now / began. So that ye me answer e:

never a dele] never a bit. than] then. in fere] in company together.

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