maneres sitten in heye chayres, and anoyinge folk treden, and
that unrightfully, [on] the nekkes of holy men? And vertu cler-shyninge
naturelly is hid in [derke derkenesses], and the rightful
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man bereth the blame and the peyne of the feloun. Ne forsweringe
ne the fraude, [covered and kembd] with a fals colour,
ne anoyeth nat to shrewes; the whiche shrewes, whan hem list
to usen hir strengthe, they reioysen hem to putten under hem
the sovereyne kinges, whiche that poeple with-outen noumbre
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