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(33) Tyme.
An Auncient knight of ffee and of renowne,
with his Ladie to dinner sate him downe:
they sett; the hungrie knight did bid his mann
some pottage sett, with which the knight begann;
but eatinge fast and over greedilie,
a little herbe did take his course awrye,
which made him coffe, that chok'd he was, he said.
Yet the good Ladie, therwith not dismayed,
“Sir, it is tyme, it is but tyme,” replied.
the payned knight, the more, for anger, cried
that chok'd he was; but his Ladie, that ment
but well, saied “it is but tyme, sir, be content!”
whereat the knight the more did coffe and strayne,
ffor Anger of her speech then of the payne;
for where her wordes the herbe tyme did intend,
hee them mistooke, and deem'd shee sought his ende,
since wronglie hee conceiv'd therbye that shee
thought it but tyme that he should choked bee.
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