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23 Of
yonge folk, I wente
sone
24 To
bedde, as I was wont to
done,
25 And
fast I sleep; and in
sleping,
26 Me
mette swiche a
swevening,
27 That
lykede me wonders
wel;
28 But
in that sweven is never a
del
29 That
it nis afterward
befalle,
30 Right
as this dreem wol telle us
Alle.
31 Now
this dreem wol I ryme
Aright,
32 To
make your hertes gaye and
light;
33 For
Love it prayeth, and
Also
34 Commaundeth
me that it be
so.
35 And
if ther any aske
me,
36 Whether
that it be he or
she,
37 How
[that] this book [the] which is
here
38 Shal
hote, that I rede you
here;
39 It
is the Romance of the
Rose,
40 In
which al the art of love I
close.
41 The
mater fair is of to
make;
42 God
graunte in gree that she it
take
43 For
whom that it begonnen
is!
44 And
that is she that hath,
y-wis,
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