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Excerpt from Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Vol. 26: Edited From Original Manuscripts and Scarce Publications
God gif me some I and I were a pope, Nought only thou, but every mighty man, Though he were sohore brode upon his pan, Schuld ban a Wif for al this world is low, Religioun hath take up al the corn 15440 Of tredyng, and we burel men ben schrympes; Of feble trees ther cometh feble ympes.
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