be now alderfirst assailed in perils by folk of wikkede maneres?
Have I nat striven with ful greet stryf, in olde tyme, bifore the
age of my Plato, ayeines the foolhardinesse of folye? And eek,
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the same [Plato] livinge, his maister Socrates deservede victorie of
unrightful deeth in my presence. The heritage of which Socrates—the
[heritage] is to seyn the doctrine of the whiche Socrates in his
opinioun of Felicitee, that I clepe welefulnesse—whan that the
poeple of Epicuriens and Stoiciens and many othre enforceden
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