speken of complexiouns and atempraunces of bodies? [Ne it ne is nat]
an unlyk miracle, to hem that ne knowen it nat, (as who seith, but it
is lyke a merveil or a miracle to hem that ne knowen it nat), why that
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swete thinges ben covenable to some bodies that ben hole, and to
some bodies bittere thinges ben covenable; and also, why that
some syke folk ben holpen with lighte medicynes, and some folk
ben holpen with sharpe medicynes. But natheles, the leche that
knoweth the manere and the atempraunce of hele and of maladye,
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