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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