'I understonde wel;' quod I, 'what thou purposest to seke;
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but I desire for to herkne that thou shewe it me.'
'Tak now thus the discrecioun of this questioun,' quod she.
'Yif alle thise thinges,' quod she, 'weren membres to felicitee,
than weren they dyverse that oon from that other; and swich is
the nature of parties or of membres, that dyverse membres compounen
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a body.'
'Certes,' quod I, 'it hath wel ben shewed heer-biforn, that alle