nis nat speedful to a necessarie conclusioun. And yif it
be nat so, but that the premisses ben y-graunted, [ther is not why]
he sholde blame the argument.
For this thing that I shal telle thee now ne shal nat seme lasse
wonderful; [but of the thinges] that ben taken also it is necessarie;'
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as who seyth, it folweth of that which that is purposed biforn.
'What is that?' quod I.
'Certes,' quod she, 'that is, that thise wikked shrewes ben
more blisful, or elles lasse wrecches, that abyen the torments that