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The Fair gifts! aye, verily, good store,

Rich robe and mantle fitted for

A queen, and hood with fur bedight,

And dainty boots, and hosen white,

If you but aid my cause;—then said

The hag that, well it were I sped

Me towards the tower, where I should see

Fair-Welcome, who awaited me;

But ere she flitted did explain

How best I might good entry gain.