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Poeta Skelton answeryth.

I thanke you, goodly maystres, to me most benynge,
That of your bounte so well haue me assurid;
But my request is not so great a thynge,
That I ne force what though it be discurid;
I am not woundid but that I may be cured;
I am not ladyn of liddyrnes with lumpis,
As dasid doterdis that dreme in their dumpis.