as honours of poeple ne may nat maken folk digne of honour, it
is wel seyn cleerly that they ne han no propre beautee of dignitee.
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And yit men oughten taken more heed in this. For yif it so be
that a wikked wight be so mochel the foulere and the more out-cast,
[that he is despysed] of most folk, so as dignitee ne may nat
maken shrewes digne of reverence, the which shrewes dignitee
sheweth to moche folk, thanne maketh dignitee shrewes rather so
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moche more despysed than preysed; and forsothe [nat unpunisshed]: