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Quaþ clarel, a non riȝt:
“Bi mahoun, þat is fol of miȝt,
Woltou sikere me on hond,
Þat no man of king charles lond,
Schal do me no vileynie,
By þe deaþ þat isschal deye,
Mi conseil is a non inome,
To morue erliche ich wille come.”