don. For-why, to wilne shrewednesse, that comth peraventure
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of oure defaute; but it is lyk a monstre and a mervaille, how
that, in the present sighte of god, may ben acheved and performed
swiche thinges as every felonous man hath conceived in his
thought ayeins innocents. For which thing oon of thy [famileres]
nat unskilfully axed thus: "Yif god is, whennes comen wikkede
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thinges? And yif god ne is, whennes comen gode thinges?"
But al hadde it ben leveful that felonous folk, that now desiren