[put] in god hope and preyeres, [that ne mowen] nat ben unspeedful
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ne with-oute effect, whan they ben rightful.
Withstond thanne and eschue thou vyces; worshipe and love
thou virtues; [areys thy corage] to rightful hopes; [yilde] thou
humble preyeres a-heigh. Gret necessitee of prowesse and vertu
is encharged and commaunded to yow, yif ye nil nat dissimulen;
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[sin that ye] worken and doon, that is to seyn, your dedes or your
workes, biforn the eyen of the Iuge that seeth and demeth alle