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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,