Tum ego, Fateor, inquam.
Than seyde I thus: 'I confesse and am a-knowe it,' quod I;
'[ne I ne see nat] that men may sayn, as by right, that shrewes ne
ben chaunged in-to bestes by the qualitee of hir soules, al-be-it so
that they kepen yit the forme of the body of mankinde. But I
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[nolde] nat of shrewes, of which the thought cruel woodeth al-wey
in-to destruccioun of goode men, that it were leveful to hem to
don that.'
'Certes,' quod she, 'ne is nis nat leveful to hem, as I shal wel