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han dignitees ofte tyme, than sheweth it wel that dignitees and
powers ne ben nat goode of hir owne kinde; sin that they suffren
hem-self to cleven or ioinen hem to shrewes. And certes, the
same thing [may I] most digneliche iugen and seyn of alle the
yiftes of fortune that most plentevously comen to shrewes; of
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the whiche yiftes, I trowe that it oughte ben considered, that no
man douteth that he nis strong in whom he seeth strengthe; and
in whom that swiftnesse is, sooth it is that he is swift. Also