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the forme and in the doinge of good folk. And thilke power
sheweth ful evidently that they ne mowen right naught. For so
as I have gadered and proeved a litel her-biforn, that yvel is
naught; and so as shrewes mowen only but shrewednesses, this
conclusioun is al cleer, that shrewes ne mowen right naught, ne
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han no power.
[And for as moche as thou understonde] which is the strengthe
of this power of shrewes, I have definisshed a litel her-biforn, that