http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - The Arden edition cites the line as this 'longs the text, reading 'longs" to mean belongs to [the play itself] (41n.).35 I suggest a third possibility: that this 'longs the text is a return to Gower's self-deprecation about the importance of words; 'longs, then, would mean prolongs.
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