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For this trowe I ye knowen, alle or some,
Men reden not that folk han gretter wit
Than they that han be most with love y-nome;
And strengest folk ben therwith overcome,
The worthiest and grettest of degree;
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This was, and is, and yet men shal it see.
36. And trewelich it sit wel to be so;
For alderwysest han ther-with ben plesed;