thee to ben the resoun of this so wrongful a conclusioun? For I
wolde wondre wel the lasse, yif I trowede that al thise thinges
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weren medled by fortunous happe; but now [hepeth] and encreseth
myn astonyinge god, governour of thinges, that, so as god
yeveth ofte tymes to gode men godes and mirthes, and to shrewes
yveles and aspre thinges: and yeveth ayeinward to gode folk hardnesses,
and to shrewes he graunteth hem hir wil and that they
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desyren: what difference thanne may ther be bitwixen that that