that thou anoye nat or forthinke nat of al thy fortune: as who
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seith, I have som-what comforted thee, so that thou tempest thee nat
thus with al thy fortune, sin thou hast yit thy beste thinges. But
I may nat suffren [thy delices], that pleynest so wepinge and
anguissous, for that ther lakketh som-what to thy welefulnesse.
For what man is so sad or of so parfit welefulnesse, that he ne
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stryveth and pleyneth on som halve ayen the qualitee of his
estat? For-why ful [anguissous] thing is the condicioun of mannes