for cause of dignitee, but ayeinward honour comth to dignitee for
cause of vertu. But whiche is thilke youre dereworthe power,
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that is so cleer and [so requerable]? O ye ertheliche bestes,
considere ye nat over which thinge that it semeth that ye han
power? Now yif thou saye a mous amonges other mys, that
chalaunged to him-self-ward right and power over alle other mys,
how greet scorn woldest thou han of it! Glosa. So fareth it by
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men; the body hath power over the body. For yif thou loke wel