hem to go ravisshe everich man for his part—that is to seyn,
that everich of hem wolde drawen to the defence of his opinioun the
wordes of Socrates—they, as in partie of hir preye, to-drowen me,
cryinge and debatinge ther-ayeins, and corven and to-renten my
clothes that I hadde woven with myn handes; and with tho
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cloutes that they hadden araced out of my clothes they wenten
awey, weninge that I hadde gon with hem everydel.
In whiche Epicuriens and Stoiciens, for as moche as ther semede
some traces or steppes of myn habite, the folye of men, weninge