and som-tyme to ben horrible with wawes and with tempestes.
But the covetise of men, that may nat ben stanched, shal it
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binde me to ben stedefast, sin that stedefastnesse is uncouth
to my maneres? Swich is my strengthe, and this pley I pleye
continuely. [I torne] the whirlinge wheel with the torning cercle;
I am glad to chaungen the lowest to the heyest, and the heyest
to the lowest. [Worth up], if thou wolt, so it be by this lawe,
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that thou ne holde nat that I do thee wronge thogh thou