Prose V.
Set cum rationum iam in te.
But for as moche as the norisshinges of my resouns descenden
now in-to thee, I trowe it were tyme to usen a litel strenger
medicynes. Now understond heer, al were it so that the yiftes of
Fortune ne were nat brutel ne transitorie, what is ther in hem
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that may be thyn in any tyme, or elles that it nis foul, yif that it
be considered and loked perfitly? Richesses, ben they precious
by the nature of hem-self, or elles by the nature of thee? What is