The light, men say, that passeth in a throw;
Al if the light be nat so variable
As is the wind that every wey [can] blow;
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And yet, of reson, som men deme and trow
Women be lightest of hir company;
Bewar therfore; the blind et many a fly.
In short to say, though al the erth so wan
Were parchëmyn smothe, whyte and scribable,
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