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that alle thinges ben doon. Thanne is thilke same good [purposed]
to the workes of mankinde right as a comune mede; which
mede ne may ben dissevered fro good folk. For no wight as by
right, fro thennes-forth that him lakketh goodnesse, ne shal ben
cleped good. [For which thing], folk of goode maneres, hir medes
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ne forsaken hem never-mo. For al-be-it so that shrewes wexen
as wode as hem list ayeins goode folk, yit never-the-lesse the
corone of wyse men shal nat fallen ne faden. For foreine shrewednesse