*Hast thou nat mad in English eek the book

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How that [Crisseyde Troilus forsook],

In shewinge how that wemen han don mis?

*But natheles, answere me now to this,

*Why noldest thou as wel han seyd goodnesse

*Of wemen, as thou hast seyd wikkednesse?

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*Was ther no good matere in thy minde,

*Ne in alle thy bokes coudest thou nat finde