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And where that such one goeth about,
Before the fairest of the rout;
Where as they sitten all a row,
There will he most his body show;
His crooked kempt[1] and thereon set
An ouch-e[2] with a chap-e-let,
Or else one of green leaves,
Which late come out-e of the greves[3].
All for[4] he should seem fresh:
And thus he looketh on his flesh,
Right as a hawk which hath a sight
Upon the fowl, there he shall light:
And as he were a faëry,
He sheweth him before her eye,
In holy plac-e where they sit,
All for to make their heart-es flytte[5]
His eye no where will abide,
But look and pry on every side,
On her and her, as him best liketh,
And other while, among he siketh[6];
Thinketh "One of them that was for me,"
And so there thinketh two or three;
