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with an unwar stroke overtorneth realmes of grete nobley?
Glose. [Tragedie] is to seyn, a ditee of a prosperitee for a tyme,
that endeth in wrecchednesse.
Lernedest nat thou [in Greke], whan thou were yonge, that
[in the entree], or in the celere, of Iupiter, ther ben couched two
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tonnes; that on is ful of good, that other is ful of harm? What
right hast thou to pleyne, yif thou hast taken more plentevously
of the goode syde, that is to seyn, of my richesses and prosperites;