and yit was, thilke tyme, Rome wel waxen and greetly redouted of
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the [Parthes] and eek of other folk enhabitinge aboute. Seestow
nat thanne how streit and how compressed is thilke glorie that ye
travailen aboute to shewe and to multiplye? May thanne the
glorie of a singuler Romaine strecchen thider as the fame of the
name of Rome may nat climben ne passen? And eek, seestow nat
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that the maneres of dyverse folk and eek hir lawes ben discordaunt
among hem-self; so that thilke thing that som men