Primum igitur paterisne me pauculis rogacionibus.
First woltow suffre me to touche and assaye the estat of thy
thought by a fewe demaundes, so that I may understonde what
be the manere of thy curacioun?'
'Axe me,' quod I, 'at thy wille, what thou wolt, and I shal
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answere.'
Tho seide she thus: 'Whether wenestow,' quod she, 'that
this world be governed by foolish happes and fortunous, or
elles that ther be in it any governement of resoun?'