which wey thou mayst come ayein to thy contree. But al-be-it

so that the thinges which that thou axest ben right profitable to

knowe, yit ben they diverse somwhat fro the path of my purpos;

and it is [to douten] that thou ne be maked wery by mis-weyes, so

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that thou ne mayst nat suffyce to mesuren the right wey.'

'Ne doute thee ther-of nothing,' quod I. 'For, for to knowen

thilke thinges to-gedere, in the whiche thinges I delyte me greetly,

that shal ben to me in stede of reste; sin it is nat to douten of

the thinges folwinge, whan every syde of thy disputacioun shal han