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infortune comth alwey to wikked folk. And thou shalt wel

knowe many thinges of this kinde, that shollen [cesen] thy pleintes,

and strengthen thee with stedefast sadnesse. And for thou hast

seyn the forme of the verray blisfulnesse by me, that have

whylom shewed it thee, and thou hast knowen in whom blisfulnesse

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is y-set, [alle thinges] y-treted that I trowe ben necessarie to

putten forth, I shal shewe thee the wey that shal bringen thee

ayein un-to thyn hous. And I shal ficchen [fetheres] in thy thought,