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'But wikkede folk,' quod she, 'yif they geten the good that
they desiren, they ne mowe nat be wikkede?'
'So is it,' quod I.
'Thanne, so as that oon and that other,' quod she, 'desiren
good; and the goode folk geten good, and nat the wikke folk;
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thanne nis it no doute that the goode folk ne ben mighty and
the wikkede folk ben feble?'
'Who-so that ever,' quod I, 'douteth of this, he ne may nat