by-cause that I am replenisshed and fulfilled with thy

techinges, and enformed of thy maneres. And thus [it suffiseth]

not only, that thy reverence ne availe me not, but-yif that thou,

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of thy free wille, rather be blemished with myn offencioun. But

certes, to the harmes that I have, ther bitydeth yit this

encrees of harm, that the gessinge and the Iugement of moche

folk ne looken no-thing to the desertes of thinges, but only

to the aventure of fortune; and iugen that only swiche thinges

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