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that shrewes ben punisshed, or elles that gode folk ben y-gerdoned:
the whiche folk, sin that hir propre wil ne [sent] hem nat to that oon
ne to that other, that is to seyn, neither to gode ne to harm, but [constreineth]
hem certein necessitee of thinges to comen: thanne ne
shollen ther nevere ben, ne nevere weren, vyce ne vertu, but it
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sholde rather ben confusioun of alle desertes medled with-outen
[discrecioun]. [And yit] ther folweth an-other inconvenient, of the
whiche ther ne may ben thoght no more felonous ne more wikke;