Som tyme is shape, if he it can receyven;

And if that he wol take of it no cure,

Whan that it cometh, but wilfully it weyven,

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Lo, neither cas nor fortune him deceyven,

But right his verray slouthe and wrecchednesse;

And swich a wight is for to blame, I gesse.

42. Good aventure, O bele nece, have ye

Ful lightly founden, and ye conne it take;

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