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cleerly that [fals beautee] of blisfulnesse is knowen and ateint in
thilke thinges? First and forward thou thy-self, that haddest
habundaunces of richesses nat long agon, [I axe] yif that, in the
habundaunce of alle thilke richesses, thou were never anguissous
or sory in thy corage of any wrong or grevaunce that bi-tidde thee
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on any syde?'
'Certes,' quod I, 'it ne remembreth me nat that evere I was
so free of my thought that I ne was alwey in anguissh of