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diverse weyes, but natheles they enforcen hem alle to comen only

to oon ende of blisfulnesse. And blisfulnesse is swiche a good,

that who-so that hath geten it, he ne may, [over that], no-thing

more desyre. And this thing is forsothe the [sovereyn good] that

conteyneth in him-self alle maner goodes; to the whiche good yif

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ther failede any thing, it mighte nat ben cleped sovereyn good:

for thanne were ther som good, [out of this ilke sovereyn good], that

mighte ben desired. Now is it cleer and certein thanne, that