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Nay, nay, not so; ye shall not go,

And I shall tell ye why,--

Your appetite is to be light

Of love, I wele espy:

For, like as ye have said to me,

In like wise hardely

Ye would answere whosoever it were

In way of company.

It is said of old, Soon hot, soon cold

And so is a woman.

Wherefore I to the wood will go,

Alone, a banished man.

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