thou now, Saintë Peter’s sister?” And at the last this Hendy Nicholas Gan for to sigh full sore, and said; “Alas! Shall all time world be lost eftsoonës 1073 now?” This carpenter answér’d; “What sayest thou? What? think on God, as we do, men that swink.” 1074 This Nicholas answer’d; “Fetch me a drink; And after will I speak in privity Of certain thing that toucheth thee and me: I will tell it no other man certain.”

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