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How Perion, that stalwart was and gay, / Treadeth with sorrow on a holiday, / Since Melicent anon must wed a king: / How in his heart he hath vain love-longing, / For which he putteth life in forfeiture, / And would no longer in such wise endure; / For writhing Perion in Venus' fire / So burneth that he dieth for desire.