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Quaþ roulond, “so mote ich þe,
At þat red nel ich nouȝt be.”
‘No ich noþer,” quat oliuer,
“Bi þe louerd sein Richer,
On liue i rede we leten him go,
& ne do we him nammore wo.
Such cas may fallen in sum neede,
He mai quiten vs oure mede.”