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moeved.'
'First,' quod she, 'thou most nedes knowen, that goode folk
ben alwey stronge and mighty, and the shrewes ben feble and
desert and naked of alle strengthes. And of thise thinges, certes,
everich of hem is declared and shewed by other. For so as
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good and yvel ben two contraries, yif so be that good be stedefast,
than sheweth the feblesse of yvel al openly; and yif thou
knowe cleerly the frelenesse of yvel, the stedefastnesse of good is