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the [matere]; to that oon man, of encres of his glorious renoun,
and to that other man, to confirme his sapience, that is to seyn, to
the asprenesse of his estat. For therfore is it called ["vertu,"] for
that it susteneth and enforseth, by hise strengthes, that it nis nat
overcomen by adversitees. [Ne certes], thou that art put in the
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encres or in the heighte of vertu, ne hast nat comen to fleten with
delices, and for to welken in bodily luste; thou sowest or plauntest
a ful egre bataile in thy corage ayeins every fortune: for that the