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For hire love y carke ant care,
For hire love y droupne ant dare,[1]
For hire love my blisse is bare
  Ant al ich waxe won.[2]
For hire love in slep y slake,
For hire love al nyht ich wake,
For hire love mournynge y make
  More then eny mon.
  Blow northerne wynd!
  Send thou me my suetyng!
  Blow northerne wynd! blow, blow, blow!

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Lines from Love Letters

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De Amico ad Amicam

A CELUY que pluys eyme en mounde,
Of alle tho that I have founde
  Carissima,
Saluz od treyé amour,
With grace and joye and alle honoure,
  Dulcissima.

Sachez bien, pleysant et beele,
That I am right in goode heele
  Laus Christo!
Et moun amour doné vous ay,
And also thine owene, night and day
  In cisto.

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  1. dare] am in dismay.
  2. won] wan.
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