Or elles no wight hath hem alwey here.

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118. O brotel wele of mannes Ioye unstable!

With what wight so thou be, or how thou pleye,

Either he woot that thou, Ioye, art muable,

Or woot it not, it moot ben oon of tweye;

Now if he woot it not, how may he seye

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That he hath verray Ioye and selinesse,

That is of ignoraunce ay in derknesse?