"Wymmen waxeth wounder proude So wel hit wol hem seme, Yef me shal wonte wille of on, This wunne weole y wole forgon Ant wyht in wode be fleme."

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"Lenten ys come with love to toune", line 32; Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (ed.) The Oxford Book of English Verse ([1900] 1912) p. 5. Translation: Brian Stone Medieval English Verse (1964) p. 200.