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this thing by short resoun, and neigh to the sothe.'

'In which manere?' quod I.

'As ofte,' quod she, 'as men doon any thing [for grace] of any

other thing, and an-other thing than thilke thing that men

entenden to don bitydeth by some causes, it is cleped "hap."

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[Right as] a man dalf the erthe [by cause] of tilyinge of the feeld,

and founde ther a gobet of gold bidolven, thanne wenen folk that

it is bifalle by fortunous bitydinge. But, for sothe, it nis nat of