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is convenient to him, and travaileth that they ne dye nat, as
longe as they han power to dwellen and to liven. [What woltow]
seyn of this, that they drawen alle hir norisshinges by hir rotes,
right as they hadden hir mouthes y-plounged with-in the erthes,
and sheden by hir maryes hir wode and hir bark? And what
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woltow seyn of this, that thilke thing that is right softe, as the
marye is, that is alwey hid in the sete, al with-inne, and that
is defended fro with-oute by the stedefastnesse of wode; and