men ben wont to finde comunly amonges the poeple, I wolde
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wene suffre the lasse grevously; [for-why], in swiche an unprofitable
man, myn ententes ne weren no-thing endamaged. But ye withdrawen
[me] this man, that hath be norisshed in the studies or
scoles of Eleaticis and of Achademicis in Grece. But goth now
rather awey, [ye mermaidenes], whiche that ben swete til it be at
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[the laste], and suffreth this man to be cured and heled by myne
Muses,' that is to seyn, by noteful sciences.