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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