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	`Love, that of erthe and see hath governaunce,
1745	Love, that his hestes hath in hevene hye,
	Love, that with an holsom alliaunce
	Halt peples joyned, as him list hem gye,
	Love, that knetteth lawe of companye,
	And couples doth in vertu for to dwelle,
1750	Bind this acord, that I have told and telle;

	`That that the world with feyth, which that is stable,
	Dyverseth so his stoundes concordinge,
	That elements that been so discordable
	Holden a bond perpetuely duringe,
1755	That Phebus mote his rosy day forth bringe,
	And that the mone hath lordship over the nightes,
	Al this doth Love; ay heried be his mightes!

	`That, that the see, that gredy is to flowen,
	Constreyneth to a certeyn ende so
1760	His flodes, that so fersly they ne growen
	To drenchen erthe and al for ever mo;
	And if that Love ought lete his brydel go,
	Al that now loveth asonder sholde lepe,
	And lost were al, that Love halt now to-hepe.

1765	`So wolde God, that auctor is of kinde,
	That, with his bond, Love of his vertu liste
	To cerclen hertes alle, and faste binde,
	That from his bond no wight the wey out wiste.
	And hertes colde, hem wolde I that he twiste
1770	To make hem love, and that hem leste ay rewe
	On hertes sore, and kepe hem that ben trewe.'

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