that felonous and wikked men ben mighty and weleful. And
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for thou hast foryeten by whiche governements the world is
governed, for-thy wenestow that thise mutaciouns of fortune
fleten with-oute governour. Thise ben grete causes not only
to maladye, but, certes, grete causes to deeth. But I thanke
[the auctor and the maker of hele], that nature hath not al
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forleten thee. I have grete [norisshinges] of thyn hele, and that
is, the sothe sentence of governaunce of the worlde; that thou