to the gode folk and to badde, the gode folk seken it by naturel
office of vertues, and the shrewes enforcen hem to geten it by
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dyverse coveityse of erthely thinges, which that nis no naturel office
to geten thilke same soverein good. Trowestow that it be any
other wyse?'
'Nay,' quod I; 'for the consequence is open and [shewinge] of
thinges that I have graunted; that nedes gode folk moten ben
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mighty, and shrewes feeble and unmighty.'