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of goode folk swich that [no day] shal enpeiren it, ne no wikkednesse
ne shal derken it, ne power of no wight ne shal nat amenusen it,
that is to seyn, to ben maked goddes.
And sin it is thus, that goode men ne failen never-mo of hir mede,
certes, no wys man ne may doute of [undepartable] peyne of the
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shrewes; that is to seyn, that the peyne of shrewes ne departeth nat
from hem-self never-mo. For so as goode and yvel, and peyne and
medes ben contrarye, it mot nedes ben, that right as we seen