'Certes,' quod I, 'I ne trowe nat in no manere, that so

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certein thinges sholde be moeved by [fortunous fortune]; but I

wot wel that god, maker and mayster, is governour of his werk.

Ne never nas yit day that mighte putte me out of the sothnesse

of that sentence.'

'So is it,' quod she; 'for [the same thing songe thou] a litel

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her-biforn, and biweyledest and biweptest, that only men weren

put out of the cure of god. For of alle other thinges thou