Prose II.
Vellem autem pauca tecum.
Certes, I wolde pleten with thee a fewe thinges, usinge the
[wordes of Fortune]; tak hede now thy-self, yif that she axeth
right. "O thou man, wher-fore makest thou me gilty by thyne
[every-dayes] pleyninges? What wrong have I don thee? What
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goodes have I bireft thee that weren thyne? Stryf or plete
with me, bifore what Iuge that thou wolt, of the possessioun
of richesses or of dignitees. And yif thou mayst shewen me