departeth fro him. What other thing is flittinge Fortune but a
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maner shewinge of wrecchednesse that is to comen? Ne it ne
suffyseth nat only to loken on thinge that is present biforn the
eyen of a man. But wisdom loketh and amesureth the ende
of thinges; and the same chaunginge from oon in-to an-other,
that is to seyn, from adversitee in-to prosperitee, maketh that the
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manaces of Fortune ne ben nat for to dreden, ne the flateringes
of hir to ben desired. Thus, at the laste, it bihoveth thee to