Remembre yow of Socrates;
For he ne counted nat three strees
Of noght that Fortune coude do.'
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'No,' quod he, 'I can not so.'
'Why so? good sir! parde!' quod I;
Ne say noght so, for trewely,
Thogh ye had lost the ferses twelve,
And ye for sorwe mordred your-selve,
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