conscience? And yif it seme a fair thing, a man to han
encresed and spred his name, than folweth it that it is demed
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to ben a foul thing, yif it ne be y-sprad and encresed. But,
as I seyde a litel her-biforn that, sin ther mot nedes ben many
folk, to whiche folk the renoun of a man ne may nat comen,
it befalleth that he, that thou wenest be glorious and renomed,
semeth in the nexte partie of the erthes to ben with-oute glorie
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and with-oute renoun.