right.
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How ofte have I resisted and withstonde thilke man that highte
[Conigaste], that made alwey assautes ayeins [the prospre fortunes] of
pore feble folk? How ofte eek have I put of or cast out him,
[Trigwille], provost of the kinges hous, bothe of the wronges that he
hadde bigunne to don, and eek fully performed? How ofte have
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I covered and defended by the [auctoritee] of me, put ayeins perils—
that is to seyn, put myn auctoritee in peril for—the wrecched