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thanne of shrewes, yif thilke naturel help hadde forleten hem, the
which naturel help of intencioun goth awey biforn hem, and is so
greet that unnethe it may ben overcome? Consider thanne how
greet defaute of power and how greet feblesse ther is in wikkede
felonous folk; as who seyth, the gretter thing that is coveited and
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the desire nat acomplisshed, of the lasse might is he that coveiteth it
and may nat acomplisshe. And forthy Philosophie seyth thus by
soverein good: [Ne shrewes] ne requeren nat lighte medes ne veyne