viage to make, understand wel, that he that dredeth any rayn, to
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sowe his cornes, he shal have than [bare] bernes. Also he that
is aferd of his clothes, let him daunce naked! Who nothing
undertaketh, and namely in my service, nothing acheveth. After
grete stormes the †weder is often mery and smothe. After
moche clatering, there is mokil rowning. Thus, after jangling
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wordes, cometh "huissht! pees! and be stille!"'
'O good lady!' quod I than, 'see now how, seven yere passed