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Caxton 1, folio78r image
 Hoost quod he depar dien Ie assent  
To breke forward is not myn entent  
 Beheste his dette and I wolde fayn  
 Plese yow / and therto wole I do my payne  
 For suche lawe as men yeueth another wight  
 He sholde hym self vse it be right  
Thus wol our text but natheles certeyn  
 I can right now no thrifty tale seyn  
 That Chauser they he can but lewdly  
 On metris and on rymynge craftely  
 Hath sayd hem in suche english as he can  
Of olde tyme as knoweth meny a man  
 And yf he hath not sayd hem leue brother  
 In o book he hath sayd hem in anothir  
 For he hath told of louers vp an doun  
 Mo than Ouyde made of mencion  
In his Epistelis that ben olde  
 What sholde he telle hem sith they be told  
 In yonthe he made of Certes of alkyon  
 And sith he hath spoken of euerichon  
 These nobil wyuys and thyse nobil louers eek  
Who that wol his large volum seke  
 Clepyd the sayntis lyuys of cupyde  
 There may he see the large woundis wyde  
 Of lucrece and of babylone tisbe  
 The swerd of dido for the fals Enee  
The swerd of philles for here demophon  
 The playnte of dyanere and of armyon  
 Of adryane and eke of Isiphyle  

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: L7, 40
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B1, 40
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment II, 40

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: L7, 45
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B1, 45
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment II, 45

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: L7, 50
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B1, 50
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment II, 50

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: L7, 55
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B1, 55
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment II, 55

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: L7, 60
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B1, 60
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment II, 60

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: L7, 65
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B1, 65
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment II, 65