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To knowen frend fro fo in thy mirour.
So muche hath yit thy whirling up and doun
Y-taught me for to knowen in an hour.
But trewely, no force of thy reddour
To him that over him-self hath the maystrye!
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My suffisaunce shal be my socour:
For fynally, Fortune, I thee defye!
O Socrates, thou stedfast champioun,