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folk in guerdoun? Demeth aught the poeple that it is wikked?'
'Nay, forsothe,' quod I; 'but they demen, as it sooth is, that it
is right good.'
'And what seystow of that other fortune,' quod she, 'that,
al-thogh that it be aspre, and restreineth the shrewes by rightful
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torment, weneth aught the poeple that it be good?'
'Nay,' quod I, 'but the poeple demeth that it is most wrecched
of alle thinges that may ben thought.'