That shal you yeve a parfit floured age.

Taketh also hede, how that these noble clerkes

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Write in hir bokes of gret sapience,

Saying, that fayth is deed withouten werkes;

So is estat withoute intelligence

Of vertue; and therfore, with diligence,

Shapeth of vertue so to plante the rote,

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That ye therof have ful experience,