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"Allas! quod she, that evere I was born!"

"Allas! quod she, that evere I was born!"
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"Allas! quod she, that evere I was born!"

from: The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: A Facsimile of the William Morris Kelmscott Chaucer (P. 169) -  1958
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"Hoom cam Arveragus, this worthy knyght, And asked hire, why that she weep so soore; And she gan wepen ever lenger the moore. Allas! quod she, that evere I was born! Thus have I seyd, quod she, thus have I sworn And toold hym al as ye han herd bifore; It nedeth nat reherce it yow namoore." (p. 168-9)