[wrytheth] out through his brokene chiminees smokinge fyres. Ne

the wey of [thonder-light], that is wont to smyten heye toures, ne

shal nat moeve that man. Wher-to thanne, o wrecches, drede ye

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tirauntes that ben wode and felonous with-oute any strengthe?

Hope after no-thing, ne drede nat; and so shaltow desarmen

the ire of thilke unmighty tiraunt. But who-so that, quakinge,

dredeth or desireth thing that nis nat [stable of his right], that

man that so doth hath cast awey his sheld and is remoeved fro

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