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So excellent a clerk as that was he,
And other mo that coude so wel preche
Betrapped were, for aught they coude teche.
And trusteth wel, that it is no mervayle;
For wommen knewen pleynly hir entente.
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They wiste how sotilly they coude assayle
Hem, and what falshood they in herte mente;
And thise clerkes they in hir daunger hente.