5. [Ye holden regne] and hous in unitee;

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Ye soothfast cause of frendship been also;

[Ye knowe] al thilke covered qualitee

Of thinges which that folk on wondren so,

Whan they can not construe how it may [io],

She loveth him, or why he loveth here;

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As why this fish, and nought that, cometh to [were].

6. Ye folk a lawe [han set] in universe,