bityden in guerdoun of goode, that also mot the peyne of yvel
answery, by the contrarye party, to shrewes. Now thanne, so as
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bountee and prowesse ben the mede to goode folk, al-so is
shrewednesse it-self torment to shrewes. Thanne, who-so that
ever is entecched and defouled with peyne, he ne douteth nat,
that he is entecched and defouled with yvel. Yif shrewes thanne
wolen preysen hem-self, [may it semen] to hem that they ben with-outen
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party of torment, sin they ben swiche that the uttereste