thy mistrust causen; and thilke thinges I thinke by reson to
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distroyen, and putte ful hope in thyn herte. What understondest
thou there,' quod she, 'by that thou saydest, "many let-games
are thyn overlokers?" And also by "that thy moeble is insuffysaunt"?
I not what thou therof menest.'
'Trewly,' quod I, 'by the first I say, that janglers evermore
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arn spekinge rather of yvel than of good; for every age of man
rather enclyneth to wickednesse, than any goodnesse to avaunce.