ne merveileth of it no-thing. But what other thing semeth [hele]
[of corages] but bountee and prowesse? And what other thing
semeth maladye of corages but vyces? Who is elles kepere of
good or dryver awey of yvel, but god, governour and [lecher] of
thoughtes? The whiche god, whan he hath biholden from the
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heye tour of his purveaunce, he knoweth what is covenable to
every wight, and [leneth hem] that he wot that is covenable to hem.
Lo, her-of comth and her-of is don this noble miracle of the ordre
destinal, whan god, that al knoweth, doth swiche thing, of which