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eftsones afterward, whan I loste it, confounded by the charge and
by the burdene of my sorwe.'
And thanne seide she thus: 'yif thou loke,' quod she, 'first
the thinges that thou hast graunted, it ne shal nat ben right fer
that thou ne shalt remembren thilke thing that thou seydest that
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thou nistest nat.'
'What thing?' quod I.
'By whiche governement,' quod she, 'that this world is