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knowen thilke notificacions that ben y-hid under the covertoures of

sooth? [Wot it] aught thilke thing that it, anguissous, desireth to

knowe? As who seith, nay; for no man travaileth for to witen

thinges that he wot. And therfore the texte [seith thus]: but who

travaileth to witen thinges y-knowe? And yif that he ne knoweth

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hem nat, what seketh thilke blinde thoght? What is he that

desireth any thing of which he wot right naught? As who seith,

who so desireth any thing, nedes, somwhat he knoweth of it; or