thou considere the noumbre and the manere of thy blisses and
of thy sorwes, thou mayst nat forsaken that thou art yit blisful.
For if thou therfor wenest thy-self nat weleful, for thinges that
tho semeden ioyful ben passed, ther nis nat why thou sholdest wene
thy-self a wrecche; for thinges that semen now sorye passen also.
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[Art thou] now comen first, a sodein gest, in-to the shadwe or
tabernacle of this lyf; or trowest thou that any stedefastnesse be
in mannes thinges, whan ofte a swift houre dissolveth the same
man; that is to seyn, whan the soule departeth fro the body? For,