... coupled be to galle These yonge folke cryeden oft sithe And praid venus her power to kythe Vpon this myschief and shape remedye And right anone I herde other crye Wit[h] sobbyng teres and pietous sowne To fore the goddesse by lamentacion That were constrayned in their yougthe And in childhode as is ofte couthe Y entrid were in to Religion Or they had yeris of discresc[o]n That al her lif can not but compleyne In wyde Copes perfection forto feyne ... — The Temple of Glass • John Lydgate
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