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[Ffor to love her for her lokes lovely]

Ffor to love her for her lokes lovely
My hert was set in thought right fermely,
Trusting by trought to have had redresse;
But she hath made an othre promes
And hath geven me leve full honestly
Yet do I not reioyse it greately,
For on my faith I loved to surely;
But reason will that I do sesse
For to love her.
Syns that in love the paynes ben dedly,
Me thinck it best that reddely
I do retorne to my first adresse;
For at this tyme to great is the prese,
And perilles appere to abundauntely
For to love her.