The cause whi it changeth so

It needeth nought to specifie,[33]

The thing so open is at ÿe

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That every man it mai beholde:

And natheles be daies olde,

Whan that the bokes weren levere,

Wrytinge was beloved evere[34]

Of hem that weren vertuous;

For hier in erthe amonges ous, 40