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parties to-gider right faste and harde, and deffenden hem in
withstondinge that they ne departe nat lightly a-twinne. And
the thinges that ben softe and fletinge, as is water and eyr,
they departen lightly, and yeven place to hem that breken or
devyden hem; but natheles, they retornen sone ayein in-to
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the same thinges fro whennes they ben arraced. [But fyr] fleeth
and refuseth al devisioun. Ne I ne trete nat heer now of
[wilful] moevinges of the sowle that is knowinge, but of the