wrecchednesse? But yit, al be it so that the reaumes of mankinde
strecchen brode, yit mot ther nede ben moche folk, over
whiche that every king ne hath no lordshipe ne comaundement.
And certes, [up-on thilke syde that] power faileth, which that
maketh folk blisful, right on that same syde [noun-power] entreth
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under-nethe, that maketh hem wrecches; in this manere thanne
moten kinges han more porcioun of wrecchednesse than of
welefulnesse. [A tyraunt], that was king of Sisile, that hadde
assayed the peril of his estat, shewede by similitude the dredes