It were al tyme sone to biginne.

181. I am a womman, as ful wel ye woot,

And as I am avysed sodeynly,

So wol I telle yow, whyl it is hoot.

Me thinketh thus, that neither ye nor I

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Oughte half this wo to make skilfully.

For there is art y-now for to redresse

That yet is mis, and sleen this hevinesse.

182. Sooth is, the wo, the whiche that we ben inne,