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For either alle thinges ben referred and brought to nought,
and [floteren] with-oute governour, despoiled of oon as of hir
propre heved; or elles, yif ther be any thing to which that
alle thinges tenden and hyen, that thing moste ben the soverein
good of alle goodes.'
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Thanne seyde she thus: 'O my nory,' quod she, 'I have
gret gladnesse of thee; [for thou hast] ficched in thyn herte
the middel soothfastnesse, that is to seyn, the prikke; but this