'Thus see I wel,' quod I, 'either what blisfulnesse or elles
what unselinesse is establisshed in the desertes of goode men and
of shrewes. But in this ilke fortune of poeple I see somwhat of
good and somwhat of yvel. For no wyse man hath lever ben
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exyled, poore and nedy, and nameles, than for to dwellen in his
citee and flouren of richesses, and be redoutable by honour, and
strong of power. For in this wyse more cleerly and more witnesfully
is the office of wyse men y-treted, whan the blisfulnesse and
the poustee of governours is, as it were, [y-shad] amonges poeples