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lecherye and coveityse overthroweth hem mistorned; and certes,
so doth distemperaunce to feble men, that ne mowen nat wrastlen
ayeins the vyces. Ne knowen they nat thanne wel that they
forleten the good wilfully, and tornen hem wilfully to vyces? And
in this wyse they ne forleten nat only to ben mighty, but they
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forleten al-outrely in any wyse for to ben. For they that forleten
the comune fyn of alle thinges that ben, they forleten also therwith-al