shrewes, as I have shewed ful plentivously, seken good, but
wikked errour mistorneth hem, [ne the ordre] cominge fro the
poynt of soverein good ne declyneth nat fro his biginninge. But
[thou mayst seyn], what unreste may ben a worse confusioun than
that gode men han somtyme adversitee and somtyme prosperitee,
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and shrewes also now han thinges that they desiren, and now
thinges that they haten? Whether men liven now in swich
hoolnesse of thoght, (as who seyth, ben men now so wyse), that
swiche folk as they demen to ben gode folk or shrewes, that