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that be neighebours and subgits; sin that, namely, prisoun, lawe,
and thise othre torments of laweful peynes ben rather owed to
felonous citezeins, for the whiche felonous citezeins tho peynes
ben establisshed, than for good folk. Thanne I mervaile me
greetly,' quod I, 'why that the thinges ben so mis entrechaunged,
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that torments of felonyes pressen and confounden goode folk, and
shrewes ravisshen medes of vertu, and ben in honours and in
gret estats. And I desyre eek for to witen of thee, what semeth