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dwelleth with hem hole, but they han lost the voice and the
body; only hir thought dwelleth with hem stable, that wepeth
and biweileth the monstruous chaunginge that they suffren. O
[overlight] hand (as who seyth, O! feble and light is the hand of
Circes the enchaunteresse, that chaungeth the bodyes of folkes in-to
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bestes, to regard and to comparisoun of mutacioun that is maked by
vyces); ne the herbes of Circes ne ben nat mighty. For al-be-it
so that they may chaungen the limes of the body, algates yit