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Within her own fair castelaye / There goes a damsel bright; / A whole year's tide for her has sighed / A young and handsome knight.
"Now do thou hear, thou beauteous maid, / Could I thy troth obtain, / Then thou shouldst tread on silk outspread, / And ne'er on the earth again.