'Thanne is yvel nothing,' quod she, 'sin that he ne may nat

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don yvel that may don alle thinges.'

['Scornest thou me?'] quod I; 'or elles pleyest thou or deceivest

thou me, that hast so woven me with thy resouns [the hous of]

[Dedalus], so entrelaced that it is unable to be unlaced; thou that

other-whyle entrest ther thou issest, and other-whyle issest ther

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thou entrest, ne foldest thou nat to-gider, by replicacioun of

wordes, a maner wonderful cercle or environinge of the simplicitee