The vice or vertu chese may.

Thus stonden alle men franchised,

Bot in astat thei ben divised;

Nota.[818]

To some worschipe and richesse,

To some poverte and distresse,

On lordeth and an other serveth;

Bot yit as every man deserveth

The world yifth noght his yiftes hiere.

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