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1387 What
sholde I telle you more of
it?
1388 Ther
were so many treës
yit,
1389 That
I sholde al encombred
be
1390 Er
I had rekened every
tree.
1391 These
trees were set, that I
devyse,
1392 Oon
from another, in
Assyse,
1393 Five
fadome or sixe, I trowe
so,
1394 But
they were hye and grete
Also:
1395 And
for to kepe out wel the
sonne,
1396 The
croppes were so thikke
y-ronne,
1397 And
every braunch in other
knet,
1398 And
ful of grene leves
set,
1399 That
sonne mighte noon
descende,
1400 Lest
[it] the tendre grasses
shende.
1401 Ther
mighte men does and roes
y-see,
1402 And
of squirels ful greet
plentee,
1403 From
bough to bough alwey
leping.
1404 Conies
ther were also
playing,
1405 That
comen out of hir
claperes
1406 Of
sondry colours and
maneres,
1407 And
maden many a
turneying
1408 Upon
the fresshe gras
springing.
1409 In
places saw I welles
there,
1410 In
whiche ther no frogges
were,
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