semen verray goodes, now behoveth thee to knowe whennes and
where thou mowe seke thilke verray blisfulnesse.'
'Certes,' quod I, 'that desire I greetly, and have abiden longe
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tyme to herknen it.'
'But for as moche,' quod she, 'as it lyketh to my disciple
Plato, in his book of ["in Timeo,"] that in right litel thinges men
sholden bisechen the help of god, what iugest thou that be now
to done, so that we may deserve to finde the sete of thilke
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