moeve swiche thinges that percen hem-self depe. But natheles,
that thou shalt not wilne to leten thy-self a wrecche, hast thou
foryeten the noumber and the manere of thy welefulnesse? I
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holde me stille, how that the soverayne men of the citee token
thee in cure and kepinge, whan thou were orphelin of fader and
moder, and were chosen in affinitee of [princes] of the citee; and
thou bigunne rather to be [leef] and dere than forto ben a neighbour;
the whiche thing is the most precious kinde of any propinquitee
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