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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,