men may lightly to-forn-hand purvaye remedye; in this wyse pees
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and rest to be furthered and holde. Of the whiche thinges, lady,
thilke persones broughten in answere to-forn their moste soverayne
juge, not coarted by payninge dures, openly knowlegeden, and
asked therof grace; so that apertly it preveth my wordes ben
sothe, without forginge of lesinges.
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But now it greveth me to remembre these dyvers sentences, in
janglinge of these shepy people; certes, me thinketh, they oughten