Felix, qui potuit boni.
Blisful is that man that may seen the clere welle of good; blisful
is he that may unbinden him fro the bondes of the hevy erthe.
The poete of [Trace, Orpheus], that whylom hadde right greet sorwe
for the deeth of his wyf, after that he hadde maked, by his [weeply]
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songes, the wodes, [moevable], to rennen; and hadde maked the
riveres to stonden stille; and hadde maked the hertes and the
hindes to ioignen, dredeles, hir sydes to cruel lyouns, for to herknen
his songe; and hadde maked that the hare was nat agast of the