frount, and sheweth hir maneres. Peraventure yit understondest
thou nat that I shal seye. It is a wonder that I desire to telle,
and forthy unnethe may I [unpleyten] my sentence with wordes; for
I deme that contrarious Fortune profiteth more to men than
Fortune debonaire. For alwey, whan Fortune semeth debonaire,
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than she lyeth falsly in bihetinge the hope of welefulnesse; but
forsothe contrarious Fortune is alwey soothfast, whan she sheweth
hir-self unstable thorugh hir chaunginge. The amiable Fortune
deceyveth folk; the contrarie Fortune techeth. The amiable