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