up-on the body of a wight, what thing shall thou finde more
freele than is mankinde; the whiche men wel ofte ben slayn with
bytinge of smale flyes, or elles with the entringe of crepinge
wormes [in-to the privetees of mannes body]? But wher shal man
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finden any man that may exercen or haunten any right up-on
another man, but only up-on his body, or elles up-on thinges
that ben lowere than the body, [the whiche I clepe] fortunous
possessiouns? Mayst thou ever have any comaundement over
a free corage? Mayst thou remuen fro the estat of his propre