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III.

Woman.
How hard is my doom to wurch!
Great is my woe:
Dame Agnes, who lies in the church
With birlet gold,
With gilded aumeres, strong, untold,
What was she more than me, to be so?


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Man.
I ken Sir Roger from afar,
Tripping over the lea;
I will ask why the lordès son
Is more than me.