of many and greet-witted clerkes they alegen. And some men
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sayn, though al good estimacion forsake folk that han adversitè,
yet is it meryte and encrees of his blisse; so that these purposes
am so wonderful in understanding, that trewly, for myn adversitè
now, I not how the sentence of the indifferent people wil jugen
my fame.'
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'Therfore,' quod she, 'if any wight shulde yeve a trewe sentence
on suche maters, the cause of the disese maist thou see