thee list to thinken, [were thought] to the regard of eternitee, that
is unstaunchable and infinit, it ne sholde nat only semen litel, but
pleynliche right naught. But ye men, certes, ne conne don
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nothing a-right, but-yif it be for the audience of poeple and for
ydel rumours; and ye forsaken the grete worthinesse of conscience
and of vertu, and ye seken your guerdouns of the smale wordes of
straunge folk.
Have now heer and understonde, in the lightnesse of swich
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