thing that unknowinge folk ben astoned. But [for to constreine],
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as who seyth, but for to comprehende and telle a fewe thinges of the
divyne deepnesse, the whiche that mannes resoun may understonde,
thilke man that thou wenest to ben right Iuste and [right]
[kepinge] of equitee, the contrarie of that semeth to the divyne
purveaunce, that al wot. And Lucan, [my familer], telleth that
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"the victorious cause lykede to the goddes, and the cause over-comen
lykede to Catoun." Thanne, what-so-ever thou mayst seen