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gold or precious stones), [weneth] him only most worthy that hath
hem. Thou thanne, that so bisy dredest now the swerd and now
the spere, yif thou haddest entred in the path of this lyf a voide
[wayferinge] man, than woldest thou singe beforn the theef; as
who seith, a pore man, that berth no richesse on him by the weye,
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may boldely [singe] biforn theves, for he hath nat wherof to ben
robbed. O precious and right cleer is the blisfulnesse of mortal
richesses, that, whan thou hast geten it, than hast thou lorn thy