But I have travailed and told yit hiderto, for thou sholdest knowe
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that the mowinge of shrewes, which mowinge thee semeth to ben
unworthy, nis no mowinge: and eek of shrewes, of which thou
pleinedest that they ne were nat punisshed, that thou woldest
seen that they ne weren never-mo with-outen the torments of hir
wikkednesse: and of the licence of the mowinge to don yvel,
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that thou preydest that it mighte sone ben ended, and that thou
woldest fayn lernen that it ne sholde nat longe dure: and that