and nat noble, that is suffisaunt, reverent, and mighty, or elles that
it is right noble and right cleer by celebritee of renoun? [Consider]
thanne,' quod she, 'as we han graunted her-biforn, that he that
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ne hath nede of no-thing, and is most mighty and most digne
of honour, yif him nedeth any cleernesse of renoun, which
cleernesse he mighte nat graunten of him-self, so that, for lakke
of thilke cleernesse, he mighte seme the febeler on any syde
or the more out-cast?' Glose. This is to seyn, nay; for who-so
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