Were fals and foul, and wikked corsednesse.
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143. Eek this is an opinioun of somme
That han hir top ful heighe and [smothe y-shore];
[They seyn right thus], that thing is not to come
For that the prescience hath seyn bifore
That it shal come; but they seyn, that therfore
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That it shal come, therfore the purveyaunce
Wot it biforn with-outen ignoraunce;