thanne moten thilke thinges fleten to-gidere which that the water
of the entrechaunginge flood bringeth. The shippes and the
stokkes arraced with the flood moten assemblen; [and the wateres]
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y-medled wrappeth or implyeth many fortunel happes or maneres;
the whiche wandringe happes, natheles, thilke declyninge lownesse
of the erthe and the flowinge ordre of the slydinge water governeth.
Right so Fortune, that semeth as that it fleteth with slaked or
ungovernede brydles, [it suffereth] brydles, that is to seyn, to be
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