than by the same cause moten thise bestes ben cleped blisful;
of whiche bestes al the entencioun hasteth to fulfille hir bodily
[Iolitee]. And the gladnesse of wyf and children were an honest
thing, but it hath ben seyd that it is over muchel ayeins kinde,
[that children] han ben founden tormentours to hir fadres, I not
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how manye: of whiche children how [bytinge] is every condicioun,
it nedeth nat to tellen it thee, that hast [or] this tyme assayed
it, and art yit now anguissous. In this approve I the sentence
of my disciple [Euripidis], that seyde, that "he that hath no