And ther with alle / me thought hit stent
And no thinge/hyt aboute went

And me set in the flore adoun
But which a congregacioun

Of folke as I saugħ / rome a-bout
[Some within and some without]
Nas neuer seen / ne shal ben) eft
That certys in the worlde nys left
So many formed / be nature

Ne dede / so many a creature

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And thus shal hit be / and thus herde y seye

That shal be founde / that dare I leye

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That alle the folke / that ys a lyve

Ne han the kunnynge / to discryve

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HOUSE OF FAME.

FAIRFAX MS. 16.

The thinges / that I herde there
What a lovde / and what in ere

But al the wonder / most was this

Whan) oon) had herde / a thinge y-wis

He come forth ryght' / to another wight
And gan him tellen / anon) ryght'
The same / that him was tolde
Or hyt a forlonge way / was olde
But gan somme what / for to eche
Tho this tydynge / in this specho

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