Fals-Semblant proveth so this thing

That he can noon answering,

And seeth alwey such apparaunce,

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That nygh he fel in repentaunce,

And seide him:—'Sir, it may wel be.

Semblant, a good man semen ye;

And, Abstinence, ful wyse ye seme;

Of o talent you bothe I deme.

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