governed.'

'Me remembreth it wel,' quod I; 'and I confesse wel that I

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ne wiste it naught. But al-be-it so that I see now from a-fer

what thou purposest, algates, I desire yit to herkene it of thee

more pleynly.'

'Thou ne [wendest] nat,' quod she, 'a litel her-biforn, that men

sholden doute that this world [nis governed] by god.'

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'Certes,' quod I, 'ne yit ne doute I it naught, ne I nel never