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Therefrom, for shouldst thou let it stray,
That crime shall store an evil day.
But he who wholly doth accord
His heart in one great gift, reward
Doth merit, and each gift shall bring
The donor bounteous guerdoning.
But give it freely, singly, clear,
With joyous face and pleasant cheer,
For greatly doth the manner make
An offering welcome, none will take2350
A gift bestowed with grudging mien,
Above the worth of one poor bean.

Give thy heart wholly When thou thy heart hast freely given,
As my fair sermoning hath striven
To teach thee, then thou next shall know
The toils and griefs those undergo,
Whose shoulders bear the lover’s yoke.
Thy love adventures must thou cloke
From eyes of other men, lest they
Perceive the miseries that play2360
Around thy heart; thou all alone,
Content must be to make thy moan.
Then sighs, and woeful plaints, and tears,
And trembling hopes, and shivering fears,
Within thy breast wilt thou enfold;
Now parched with heat, now pinched with cold,
And now vermilion red, and now
Wan as a spectre shalt thou grow:
No fevers ever troubled man,
Nor tertian, nor quotidian,2370
Worse than the throes that lovers feel.
And many a time will love so deal