received wordes of outrage, he, as in stryvinge ayein and reioysinge
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of him-self, [seyde] at the laste right thus: "understondest
thou nat that I am a philosophre?" That other man answerde
ayein ful bytingly, and seyde: "I hadde wel understonden it, yif
thou haddest holden thy tonge stille." But what is it to thise
noble worthy men (for, certes, of swiche folke speke I) that seken
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glorie with vertu? What is it?' quod she; 'what atteyneth fame
to swiche folk, whan the body is resolved by the deeth at the