endes or in the somme of the resouns that thou hast concluded

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and proeved, but thilke wordes that thou usest delyten me moche

more; [so, at the laste], fooles that sumtyme renden grete thinges

oughten ben ashamed of hem-self;' that is to seyn, that we fooles

that reprehenden wikkedly the thinges that touchen goddes governaunce,

we oughten ben ashamed of our-self: as I, that seyde that

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god refuseth only the werkes of men, and ne entremeteth nat of

hem.