bifille that the governoures of comunalitees studieden to geten
wisdom.
Thou seidest eek, by the mouth of [the same Plato], that it was
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a necessarie [cause], [wyse] men to taken and desire the governaunce
of comune thinges, for that the governements of citees, y-left
in the handes of [felonous tormentours citizenes], ne sholde nat
bringe in pestilence and destruccioun to gode folk. And therfor
I, folwinge thilke auctoritee (sc. Platonis), desired to putten forth
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