Simple Pagination ignores link labels

Hey there. I'm using simplePaginate() on a query and render it with no problems but the text for buttons are disregarded. Laravel doesn't pay attention to the pagination.php file in language folders. As I dug deeper, I eventually reached BootstrapThreeNextPreviousButtonRendererTrait which has the getPreviousButton and getNextButton methods. I'm assuming these methods are used by the regular paginate and the simple paginate mutually. The labels for links are defined as follows:

getPreviousButton($text = '«')

which is fine for the regular pagination. But, I'd like to see "Next" and "Previous" labels for my two-button-only pagination. Is there a way to modify the link texts without having to modify the core classes.