[other folk] dreden more than they oughten [that] whiche they
mighten wel beren; and somme dispyse that they mowe nat
beren; and thilke folk god ledeth in-to experience of himself by
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aspre and sorwful thinges. And many othre folk han bought
honourable renoun of this world by the prys of glorious deeth.
And som men, that ne mowen nat ben overcomen by torments,
have yeven ensaumple to othre folk, that vertu may nat ben overcomen
by adversitees; and of alle thinges ther nis no doute, that
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