"sayen" meaning in English

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          "text": "But diuine Shepheards ſoothly ſayen,\nIn their high Layes with wordes plaine: […]",
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          "ref": "1647, Henry More, “[Philosophical Poems.] Antipsychopannychia or The Third Book of the Song of the Soul: Containing a Confutation of the Sleep of the Soul after Death. The Præexistency of the Soul, […].”, in Alexander B[alloch] Grosart, editor, The Complete Poems of Dr. Henry More (1614–1687) […] (Chertsey Worthies’ Library), [Edinburgh: […] Edinburgh University Press; Thomas and Archibald Constable, […]] for private circulation, published 1878, →OCLC, stanza 78, page 126, column 1:",
          "text": "No more do souls of men. For stories sayen\nWell known 'mongst countrey folk, our spirits fly, […]",
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