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elles profitable.'
'Forsothe, this is a ful verray resoun,' quod I; 'and yif I consider
the purviaunce and the destinee that thou taughtest me a
litel her-biforn, this sentence is sustened by stedefast resouns.
But yif it lyke unto thee, lat us noumbren hem amonges thilke
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thinges, of whiche thou seydest a litel her-biforn, that they ne were
nat able to ben wened to the poeple.' 'Why so?' quod she.
'For that the comune word of men,' quod I, 'misuseth this