And that is sin: for reson lakketh there,
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For thow [dost] think thy neighbours wyfe to win:
Yit think it well that love may not be sin;
For god and seint, they love right verely,
Void of all sin and vice: this knowe I wele,
Affeccion of flessh is sin, truly;
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But verray love is vertue, as I fele,
For love may not thy freil desire akele: