passeth it in noblesse alle other thinges; and whan it forleteth the
knowinge of it-self, than is it brought binethen alle beestes. For-why
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al other livinge beestes han of kinde to knowe nat hem-self;
but whan that men leten the knowinge of hemself, [it cometh] hem
of vice. But how brode sheweth the errour and the folye of yow
men, that wenen that any thing may ben aparailed with straunge
aparailements! But for sothe that may nat ben doon. For yif
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a wight shyneth with thinges that ben put to him, as thus, if